{"pk":24498,"title":"Not stages, but variability ranges?  Cognitive variability bridging complexity science and 'Piaget's new theory'","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Cognitive development has been hypothesised to be stagelike between the ages of 5-8 years (e.g., Piaget). Yet, cognition varies from moment to moment, in every task, for every child. Studies have demonstrated that cognitive variability is non-trivial, non-random, and meaningful, but attempts for systematic and large-scale longitudinal measurements of cognitive variability have scarcely been undertaken.\nThis project's goal is to create a more detailed empirical record and dynamical account of intra-individual variability in cognitive development of children. We aim to do this with a 3-year longitudinal and multimodal data collection starting at 5 years of age. Half-yearly measurements will be complemented with periods of daily measurements. Our ultimate aim is to build a variability corpus in which we can study variability patterns and developmental transitions, and to connect our findings to “Piaget's new theory”. Our poster will present our methodology and findings from a pilot study.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Cognitive development; Dynamical Systems; Embodied Cognition; Problem Solving"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1g27m2ps","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Marije","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"ten Den","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Lisette","middle_name":"","last_name":"De Jonge-Hoekstra","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Marijn","middle_name":"","last_name":"van Dijk","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Jeremy","middle_name":"Trevelyan","last_name":"Burman","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Ralf F.A.","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cox","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24498/galley/14095/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24498/galley/21415/download/"}]}