Cognitive Development and Individual Variability

• Main Author: Lecerf, Thierry (auth)
• Other Authors: De Ribaupierre, Anik (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Philosophy; n/a; neuropsychological assessment; Alzheimer's Disease; life-span; mathematics; cognitive heterogeneity; prepotent response inhibition; reasoning; Raven's Progressive Matrices; computerized adaptive practicing; working memory updating; Go/NoGo SART task; allocation of study time; micro-longitudinal design; variability; functional adaptability; cognitive aging; spatial precision; longitudinal method; number; working memory; autoregressive parameter; numerical cognition; idiographic approach; hierarchical modeling; intraindividual variation; ambulatory assessment; intra-individual variability; functional diversity; prospective memory; amplitude of fluctuations; cognitive development; reaction time; cognitive impairment; mild cognitive impairment; random process fluctuation; intraindividual variability; dispersion; individual differences
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The standard approach to cognitive development most frequently consists of cross-sectional studies comparing different ages and groups while restricted to a single task. The necessity to focus on the individual in an idiographic perspective, rather than on the task or the variable, has been repeated...