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Intelligence as a developing function: a Neuroconstructivist approach

Rinaldi, L. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2017) Intelligence as a developing function: a Neuroconstructivist approach. Journal of Intelligence 5 (2), ISSN 2079-3200.

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Abstract

The concept of intelligence encompasses the mental abilities necessary to survival and advancement in any environmental context. Attempts to grasp this multifaceted concept through a relatively simple operationalization have fostered the notion that individual differences in intelligence can often be expressed by a single score. This predominant position has contributed to expect intelligence profiles to remain substantially stable over the course of ontogenetic development and, more generally, across the life-span. These tendencies, however, are biased by the still limited number of empirical reports taking a developmental perspective on intelligence. Viewing intelligence as a dynamic concept, indeed, implies the need to identify full developmental trajectories, to assess how genes, brain, cognition, and environment interact with each other. In the present paper, we describe how a neuroconstructivist approach better explains why intelligence can rise or fall over development, as a result of a fluctuating interaction between the developing system itself and the environmental factors involved at different times across ontogenesis.

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Item Type: Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Development, Intelligence, Individual Differences, Developmental Trajectory, Neuroconstructivism, Emergent Structure
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Research Centres and Institutes: Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD)
SWORD Depositor: Mr Joe Tenant
Depositing User: Mr Joe Tenant
Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2019 12:54
Last Modified: 06 Jul 2025 08:41
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28025

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