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Editorial
. 2018 Mar 22;6(2):17.
doi: 10.3390/jintelligence6020017.

On the Importance of Intraindividual Variability in Cognitive Development

Anik De Ribaupierre  1 , Thierry Lecerf  2
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On the Importance of Intraindividual Variability in Cognitive Development

Anik De Ribaupierre et al. J Intell. .

Abstract

Developmental cognitive psychology (as well as cognitive psychology in general) has a long-standing tradition to ignore all variations other than age, as if individual variations were only measurement error or noise[...].

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