Dr Rogier Kievit University positionProgramme Leader track InstitutesMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Rogier.Kievit@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Home pagehttp://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/our-res... (personal home page) Research ThemesInterestsMy research focuses on using psychometric models to understand neurodevelopmental changes in executive functions. These cognitive abilities, such as reasoning, problem solving and goal management, develop rapidly during adolescence and often show steep decline in old age. However, the neurocognitive changes that underlie these important processes are poorly understood, and many key questions are unresolved: What represents optimal brain development? How do changes in brain structure and function interact across the lifespan? Can people recruit additional neural resources to maintain performance? What sets apart people who maintain cognitive abilities into old age? To understand these questions, we must study the dynamics of development: how does brain function and structure change across the lifespan, and how does this affect our higher cognitive abilities? I approach these questions using psychometric techniques in large-sample, multimodal, longitudinal datasets. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Computational modelling Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Psychmetrics, structural equation modeling Collaborators
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Key publicationsKievit, R. A. (2014), “Turtles all the way down? Psychometric approaches to the reduction problem ” Dissertation [http://dare.uva.nl/record/472556] Kievit RA, Frankenhuis WE, Waldorp LJ, Borsboom D (2013), “Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide.” Front Psychol 4:513 Details Kriegeskorte N, Kievit RA (2013), “Representational geometry: integrating cognition, computation, and the brain.” Trends Cogn Sci 17(8):401-12 Details Kievit RA, van Rooijen H, Wicherts JM, Waldorp LJ, Kan KJ, Scholte HS, Borsboom D (2012), “Intelligence and the brain: A model-based approach.” Cogn Neurosci 3(2):89-97 Details Wagenmakers, E. J., Wetzels, R. W., Borsboom, D., van der Maas, H. L. J. & Kievit, R. A. (2012), “An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory Research.” Perspectives on Psychological Science Kievit, R.A., Romeijn, J.W., Waldorp, L.J., Wicherts, J. M., H. Steven Scholte & Borsboom, D. (2011), “Modeling Mind and Matter: Reductionism and Psychological Measurement in Cognitive Neuroscience.” Psychological Inquiry Kievit, R.A., Romeijn, J.W., Waldorp, L.J., Wicherts, J. M., H. Steven Scholte & Borsboom, D. (2011), “Mind the gap: A psychometric approach to the reduction problem.” Psychological Inquiry Publications2014Charest I, Kievit RA, Schmitz TW, Deca D, Kriegeskorte N (2014), “Unique semantic space in the brain of each beholder predicts perceived similarity.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111(40):14565-70 Details Kievit AJ, Kuijer PP, Kievit RA, Sierevelt IN, Blankevoort L, Frings-Dresen MH (2014), “A reliable, valid and responsive questionnaire to score the impact of knee complaints on work following total knee arthroplasty: the WORQ.” J Arthroplasty 29(6):1169-1175.e2 Details Kievit RA, Davis SW, Mitchell DJ, Taylor JR, Duncan J, Cam-CAN Research team, Henson RN, Cam-CAN Research team (2014), “Distinct aspects of frontal lobe structure mediate age-related differences in fluid intelligence and multitasking.” Nat Commun 5:5658 Details 2013Bakker, M., Cramer, A. O., Matzke, D., Kievit, R. A., Van Der Maas, H. L. J., Wagenmakers, E. J. & Borsboom, D. (2013), “Dwelling on the Past” European Journal of Personalit 27(2), 120-144. Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., Kievit, R.A., Cramer, A. O. J., & Schmittmann. (2013), “Transdiagnostic Networks.” Perspectives on Psychological Science Schmittmann, VD, Cramer, AO, Waldorp, LJ, Epskamp, S, Kievit, RA, & Borsboom, D (2013), “Deconstructing the construct: A network perspective on psychological phenomena. ” New Ideas in Psychology 31(1) 2012Kievit, R.A., Waldorp, L.J., Kan, K.J., & Wicherts, J. M (2012), “Causality: populations, individuals, and assumptions.” The European Journal of Personality Kosslyn SM, Kievit RA, Russell AG, Shephard JM (2012), “PowerPoint(®) Presentation Flaws and Failures: A Psychological Analysis.” Front Psychol 3:230 Details Wicherts JM, Kievit RA, Bakker M, Borsboom D (2012), “Letting the daylight in: Reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparency in science.” Front Comput Neurosci 6:20 Details 2011Borst, G., Kievit, R.A., Thompson, W. L. & Kosslyn, S.M. (2011), “Mental Rotation Is Not Easily Cognitively Penetrable” Journal of Cognitive Psychology Ganis G, Rosenfeld JP, Meixner J, Kievit RA, Schendan HE (2011), “Lying in the scanner: covert countermeasures disrupt deception detection by functional magnetic resonance imaging.” Neuroimage 55(1):312-9 Details Kan, K. J., Kievit, R. A., Dolan, C. V., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2011), “On the interpretation of the CHC Gc factor as Crystallized Intelligence.” Intelligence Kievit RA, Geurts HM (2011), “Autism and perception of awareness in self and others: Two sides of the same coin or dissociated abilities?” Cogn Neurosci 2(2):119-20 Details Penke L, Borsboom D, Johnson W, Kievit RA, Ploeger A, Wicherts JM (2011), “Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research cannot be integrated the way Kanazawa (2010) suggested.” Am Psychol 66(9):916-7 Details Penke, L, Borsboom, P., Johnson, W, Kievit, RA, Ploeger, A, Wicherts, JM (2011), “Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research cannot be integrated the way Kanazawa (2010) suggests” American Psychologist 66(9): 916-917 van der Maas HL, Molenaar D, Maris G, Kievit RA, Borsboom D (2011), “Cognitive psychology meets psychometric theory: on the relation between process models for decision making and latent variable models for individual differences.” Psychol Rev 118(2):339-56 Details van Harmelen AL, Elzinga BM, Kievit RA, Spinhoven P (2011), “Intrusions of autobiographical memories in individuals reporting childhood emotional maltreatment.” Eur J Psychotraumatol 2 Details |