Development of coordination in time estimation
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In: Developmental Psychology, Vol. 50, No. 2, 01.02.2014, p. 393-401.
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T1 - Development of coordination in time estimation
AU - Kiefer, Adam W.
AU - Wallot, Sebastian
AU - Gresham, Lori J.
AU - Kloos, Heidi
AU - Riley, Michael A.
AU - Shockley, Kevin
AU - Van Orden, Guy
PY - 2014/2/1
Y1 - 2014/2/1
N2 - How to best characterize cognitive development? The claim put forward in this article is that development is the improvement of a kind of coordination among a variety of factors. To determine the development of coordination in a cognitive task, children between 4 and 12 years of age and adults participated in a time estimation task: They had to press a button every time they thought a short time interval had passed. The resulting data series of estimated time intervals was then subjected to a set of fractal analyses to quantify coordination in terms of its degree of "rigidity" (very highly integrated) vs. "looseness" (poorly integrated). Results show a developmental trajectory toward pink-noise patterns, suggesting that cognitive development progresses from a very loose, poorly integrated coordination of factors toward a pattern that expresses more integration, perhaps due to an optimization of constraints, that allows for a more stable coordination.
AB - How to best characterize cognitive development? The claim put forward in this article is that development is the improvement of a kind of coordination among a variety of factors. To determine the development of coordination in a cognitive task, children between 4 and 12 years of age and adults participated in a time estimation task: They had to press a button every time they thought a short time interval had passed. The resulting data series of estimated time intervals was then subjected to a set of fractal analyses to quantify coordination in terms of its degree of "rigidity" (very highly integrated) vs. "looseness" (poorly integrated). Results show a developmental trajectory toward pink-noise patterns, suggesting that cognitive development progresses from a very loose, poorly integrated coordination of factors toward a pattern that expresses more integration, perhaps due to an optimization of constraints, that allows for a more stable coordination.
KW - Psychology
KW - Fractals
KW - Motor and cognitive development
KW - Time estimation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893682536&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/a0033629
DO - 10.1037/a0033629
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 23855257
AN - SCOPUS:84893682536
VL - 50
SP - 393
EP - 401
JO - Developmental Psychology
JF - Developmental Psychology
SN - 0012-1649
IS - 2
ER -