Development of coordination in time estimation

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Development of coordination in time estimation. / Kiefer, Adam W.; Wallot, Sebastian; Gresham, Lori J. et al.
In: Developmental Psychology, Vol. 50, No. 2, 01.02.2014, p. 393-401.

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Kiefer, AW, Wallot, S, Gresham, LJ, Kloos, H, Riley, MA, Shockley, K & Van Orden, G 2014, 'Development of coordination in time estimation', Developmental Psychology, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 393-401. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033629

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Kiefer, A. W., Wallot, S., Gresham, L. J., Kloos, H., Riley, M. A., Shockley, K., & Van Orden, G. (2014). Development of coordination in time estimation. Developmental Psychology, 50(2), 393-401. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033629

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Kiefer AW, Wallot S, Gresham LJ, Kloos H, Riley MA, Shockley K et al. Development of coordination in time estimation. Developmental Psychology. 2014 Feb 1;50(2):393-401. doi: 10.1037/a0033629

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abstract = "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.",
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AU - Van Orden, Guy

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