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Nov. 5th, 2016 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsAn interesting piece of research on developmental cognition:
First, I wanted to write that a good pre- and elementary school would be essential for development. Then, I thought that we don't quite know what "good" means in this context. Maybe the Finnish education model works because they expose kids to a broad variety of tasks from an early age.
In a monumental study involving 709 children, Alloway et al. tested the development of working memory capacity with a number of tasks.48 They documented a linear increase in working memory capacity from age four to age eleven.
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An increase of only one chunk in working memory could herald the emergence of an entire range of qualitatively distinct cognitive operations.
doi: 10.1111/nyas.12189
First, I wanted to write that a good pre- and elementary school would be essential for development. Then, I thought that we don't quite know what "good" means in this context. Maybe the Finnish education model works because they expose kids to a broad variety of tasks from an early age.
