The epidemiology of cognitive development

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ID19074367
AuthorsAva Guez (0000-0002-6509-1893, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique), Hugo Peyre (0000-0001-8757-0783, Hôpital Robert-Debré), Camille Williams (0000-0001-9229-6280, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Camille Michèle Williams (0000-0002-1471-6566), Ghislaine Labouret (0000-0001-7285-5540, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Franck Ramus (0000-0002-1122-5913, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique)
Year2020
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypePREPRINT
PublisherCenter for Open Science (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31234/osf.io/vckyh
OpenAlexW4233401476
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

The epidemiology of cognitive development is an approach essentially based on large observational studies, which examines individual differences in cognitive abilities throughout childhood and their determinants. Although different in terms of methodology and main interests from developmental psychology, cognitive epidemiology offers complementary viewpoints on cognitive development and addresses fundamental research questions of interest to developmental psychologists. The present paper depicts the contributions of the epidemiological approach to the field of cognitive development and highlights the methodological advances that have made such contributions possible. We discuss the stability and developmental trajectories of cognitive functions, their main predictors, the complex interplay between environmental and genetic predictors, and the relationships between the different domains of cognition from birth to adulthood

Cognition · Cognitive development · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Psychiatry · Viewpoints · Birth, Development, and Health · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Medicine · Psychology · Epidemiology

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