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Is relational complexity a useful metric for cognitive development?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Usha Goswami
Usha Goswami
Affiliation:
Institute of Child Health, University College London, London WC1N 1EH, Englandu.goswami@ich.ucl.ac.uk www.ich.bpmf.ac.uk
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Abstract

This commentary focusses on the evidence used by Halford et al. to support their postulated links between relational complexity and age differences in children's understanding of concepts. None of their developmental claims is consistent with recent cognitive-developmental research. Relational complexity must be an important variable in cognition, but it does not provide a satisfactory metric for explaining cognitive development.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 838 - 839
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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