My research is concerned with the relationship between cognitive development, general intelligence and specific abilities. For the past ten years the empirical focus of this research has centred on PROJECT KIDS, where 240 children aged between 7 and 11 are tested each year on a range of tests of cognitive abilities. My main interests have been the relationship between speed of processing, specific abilities (tests of spatial and verbal skills as well as achievement tests of maths and reading) and developmental change in 'executive functions'. A recent focus has been to compare children who were born full-term with those born premature.
In addition to PROJECT KIDS I have ongoing research into savant syndrome, new measures of speed of processing, the modularity of cognitive functions and the effects of ageing on cognition. Most recently, I have begun collaborative research on the development of empathy and the basis of moral reasoning in children and how this may or may not be influenced by general intelligence.
Recent Papers
Anderson, M. (2000). An unassailable defense of g but a siren-song for theories of intelligence. Psycoloquy, 00.11.013.intelligence-g-factor.28.anderson.
Anderson, M. (2001). Conceptions of intelligence. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 42, 3, 287-298.
Davis, H. & Anderson, M. (2001). Developmental and individual differences in fluid intelligence: evidence against the unidimensional hypothesis. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 181-206.
Anderson, M., Reid, C., & Nelson, J. (2001). Developmental changes in inspection time: what a difference a year makes. Intelligence, 29, 475-486.
Rae, C., Scott, R.B., Lee, M.A., Hines, N., Paul, C., Simpson, J.M., Karmiloff-Smith, A, Anderson, M., Styles, P & Radda G.K. (2003) Brain bioenergetics and cognitive ability. Dev. Neuroscience, 25, 324-331.
Dyck, M.J., Hay, D., Anderson, M., Smith, L.M., Piek, J., & Hallmayer, J. (2004). Is the discrepancy criterion for defining developmental disorders valid? Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 45, 5, 979-995.
Badcock, J., Williams, R., Anderson, M., & Jablensky, A. (2004). Speed of processing and individual differences in IQ in schizophrenia: General or specific cognitive deficits. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 9, 233-247.
Piek, J.P., Dyck, M.J., Nieman, A., Anderson, M., Hay D., Smith, L.M., McCoy, M. & Hallmayer, J. (2004). The Relationship Between Motor Coordination, Executive Functioning and Attention in School Aged Children. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 19, 1063-1076.
Recent Chapters
Rabbitt, P.M.A., Anderson, M., Davis, H. & Shilling, V. (2003). Cognitive processes in ageing. In J. Valsiner & K.J. Connolly (Eds.). Handbook of Developmental Psychology. London: Sage.
Anderson, M. (2005). Marrying intelligence and cognition: A developmental view. In R.J. Sternberg, & J.E. Pretz (Eds) Cognition and intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 268-287 .
Rabbitt, P.M.A., & Anderson, M. (in press). The lacunae of loss? Aging and the differentiation of cognitive abilities. In F. Craik & E. Bialystok. Lifespan Cognition.
Anderson, M. & Nelson, J. (in press). Individual differences and cognitive models of the mind: using the differentiation hypothesis to distinguish general and specific cognitive processes. In J. Duncan, P. McLeod, & L. Phillips, Speed, control and age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. July 2004.
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