An ontogenetic perspective on individual differences

An ontogenetic perspective on individual differences.

Phenotypic differences among individuals can arise during any stage of life. Although several distinct processes underlying individual differences have been defined and studied (e.g. parental effects, senescence), we lack an explicit, unified perspective for understanding how these processes contribute separately and synergistically to observed variation in functional traits. We propose a conce...

An Individual Differences Perspective on Assessing Cognitive Processes

An Ontogenetic Perspective to Scaling Sensorimotor Intelligence

Much of the work in autonomous agent design has been heavily inspired and in uenced by biological systems. Researchers strive to build arti cial systems that emulate the robust, exible, and adaptive behavior of animals. In particular, the behavior-based approach (Brooks 1991) has adopted many of its key models, metaphors, and concepts from the elds of ethology, neuroscience, and evolutionary th...

Stipules in Apocynaceae: an ontogenetic perspective

Stipules are leaf structures common in many groups of plants that can take a variety of forms. In Gentianales, interpetiolar stipules are considered a synapomorphy of Rubiaceae; however, some reports in the literature refer to their presence in other families. The goal of this study was to analyze the development of leaf primordia to investigate the possible presence of reduced or modified stip...

Temperament and coping: advantages of an individual differences perspective.

This paper examines the advantages that arise from an individual differences approach to children's coping and vulnerabilities. It suggests that the basic motivational and attentional systems involved in temperament constitute relatively primitive coping mechanisms. With development, these primitive coping skills are aided by representational and other cortical functions, allowing the coping pr...