By Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers, M.A., Ph.D., and Iain Kusel, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Challenges of Modeling Continuity and Change in Children’s Seriation and Ordinal Understanding | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. David W. Braithwaite. The monograph by McGonigle-Chalmers and Kusel (2019) describes a series of experiments providing evidence for discontinuity between ages 5 and 7 in children’s performance on seriation and ordinal understanding…
Structuralism, Constructivism, and Information Processing: Ontological Compatibilities and Incompatibilities | Commentary
Commentary on McGonigle-Chalmers and Kusel (2019). The Development of Size Sequencing Skills: An Empirical and Computational Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12411 About the AuthorDavid C. Witherington Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico Dr. Witherington’s empirical work focuses on perception-action, cognitive, and emotional development in infancy and early childhood. His conceptual work focuses on the […]
Size Sequencing: Increasingly Important for Theory, Research, and Practice | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Douglas H. Clements. Despite a long-standing interest in young children’s development of basic cognitive competencies and their learning of mathematics, my initial reactions to the title of The Development of Size Sequencing…
Overview: Seriation – A Developmental Issue | Video
In this overview video, Dr. Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers (University of Edinburgh) explains the behaviors of 5-year-olds as they struggle with (and eventually solve) the size-seriation task originally…
Methodological Lesson: Modeling the Emergence of Size Sequencing Skills | Video
With the help of whiteboard animations, Dr. Iain Kusel (University of Edinburgh) presents an easy-to-digest introduction for researchers and students alike on how a specific computational modeling approach…
The Emergence of Size Seriation Ability: A Developmental Issue | PowerPoint
This PowerPoint slideshow provides an overview of the research featured in the November 2019 Monograph. It reviews goals, methods, and key findings of research on how 5- and 7-year…
Computational Models in Developmental Psychology | PowerPoint
This PowerPoint slideshow summarizes the two existing models of seriation and computational methods used in the November 2019 Monograph, “The Development of Size Sequencing Skills: An Empirical and Computational Analysis”…
Modeling the Emergence of Size Sequencing Skill | PowerPoint
This PowerPoint provides an overview of the computational models used in the Monograph titled, “The Development of Size Sequencing Skills: An Empirical and Computational Analysis”. It is designed as a…