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Prof. dr. M.E.J. (Maartje) Raijmakers

Professor Cognitive Developmental Psychology / Endowed professor at the science museum NEMO Amsterdam
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Developmental Psychology
Photographer: onbekend
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
  • Room number: 1.19
Postal address
  • Postbus 15916
    1001 NK Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    The focus of my research has been on cognitive development and learning concerning infants perception and childrent concept learning. In addition science education, curiosity and adaptive, digital learning environments for and learning, for stdents in primary education and informal contexts such as the museum are subjects of research. Recent research work also focuses on pupils in secondary education (including the development of interest and motivation for science). Because of her background in both educational science and developmental psychology, she is familiar with both the perspective of education and the school context and the perspective of the (possibly problematic) developing child from infancy to adulthood.

    Expertise and research fields

    • Cognitive development
    • Eye-tracking
    • Learning
    • Interest Curiosity
    • Science Learning
    • ART perception
  • Research

    Research methods

    • Experimental Studies
    • Eye-Tracking
    • Latent Variable Models
    • Psychometric Network Models

    Current cooperation with organisations

    • Science museum NEMO
    • Ministry  Education Culture and Science (OC&W) 

    RPA (involved in)

  • Publications

    2023

    • Franse, R. K., Sachisthal, M. S. M., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2023). Presenting wicked problems in a science museum: A methodology to study interest from a dynamic perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, [1113019]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1113019
    • Lichtenberg, L., Visser, I., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2023). Latent Markov Models to Test the Strategy Use of 3-Year-Olds in a Rule-Based Feedback-Learning Task. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2023.2170963

    2022

    • Aktar, E., Nimphy, C. A., Kret, M. E., Pérez-Edgar, K., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Bögels, S. M. (2022). Attention Biases to Threat in Infants and Parents: Links to Parental and Infant Anxiety Dispositions. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50(3), 389-402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00848-3 [details]
    • Kucharský, Š., Zaharieva, M., Raijmakers, M., & Visser, I. (2022). Habituation, part II. Rethinking the habituation paradigm. Infant and Child Development, [e2383]. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2383
    • Roelofs, E., Wammes, D., Emons, W., & Raijmakers, M. (2022). Dynamisch toetsen van onderzoeksvaardigheden op het terrein van Natuur en Techniek bij leerlingen van groep 8 van het basisonderwijs. Pedagogische Studien, 98(5), 369-387.
    • Slim, T., van Schaik, J. E., Dobber, M., Hotze, A. C. G., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2022). Struggling or Succeeding in Science and Technology Education: Elementary School Students’ Individual Differences During Inquiry- and Design-Based Learning. Frontiers in Education, 7, [842537]. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.842537
    • Vu, T., Magis-Weinberg, L., Jansen, B. R. J., van Atteveldt, N., Janssen, T. W. P., Lee, N. C., van der Maas, H. L. J., Raijmakers, M. E. J., Sachisthal, M. S. M., & Meeter, M. (2022). Motivation-Achievement Cycles in Learning: a Literature Review and Research Agenda. Educational Psychology Review, 34(1), 39–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09616-7 [details]
    • Wynberg, E. R., Boland, A., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & van der Veen, C. (2022). Towards a Comprehensive View of Object-Oriented Play. Educational Psychology Review, 34(1), 197–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09608-7 [details]
    • Wynberg, E. R., van der Wilt, F., Boland, A., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & van der Veen, C. (2022). How young children explore, follow and impose rules during object-oriented play: a multiple case study. International Journal of Early Years Education, 30(3), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2022.2091981
    • de Mooij, S. M. M., Dumontheil, I., Kirkham, N. Z., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2022). Post-error slowing: Large scale study in an online learning environment for practising mathematics and language. Developmental Science, 25(2), [e13174]. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13174 [details]
    • van Marlen, T., van Wermeskerken, M., Jarodzka, H., Raijmakers, M., & van Gog, T. (2022). Looking through Sherlock's eyes: Effects of eye movement modelling examples with and without verbal explanations on deductive reasoning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(5), 1497-1506. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12712

    2021

    2020

    2019

    2018

    2017

    • Vander Heyden, K. M., Huizinga, M., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Jolles, J. (2017). Children's representations of another person's spatial perspective: Different strategies for different viewpoints? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 153, 57-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.09.001 [details]

    2016

    2015

    • Gerbrandy, P., Raijmakers, M., Kruijer, M., Castricum, J., & Wildeboer, P. (2015). JANUS: een etymologisch wiki-woordenboek Latijn voor leerlingen. Lampas, 48(3), 278-285. [details]
    • van Schijndel, T. J. P., Visser, I., van Bers, B. M. C. W., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2015). Preschoolers perform more informative experiments after observing theory-violating evidence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 131, 104-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.11.008 [details]

    2014

    • Andersen, L. M., Visser, I., Crone, E. A., Koolschijn, P. C. M. P., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2014). Cognitive strategy use as an index of developmental differences in neural responses to feedback. Developmental Psychology, 50(12), 2686-2696. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038106 [details]
    • Frappart, S., Raijmakers, M., & Frède, V. (2014). What do children know and understand about universal gravitation? Structural and developmental aspects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 120, 17-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.11.001 [details]
    • Jansen, B. R. J., Hofman, A. D., Straatemeier, M., van Bers, B. M. C. W., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2014). The role of pattern recognition in children's exact enumeration of small numbers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 32(2), 178-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12032 [details]
    • Peters, S., Braams, B. R., Raijmakers, M. E. J., Koolschijn, P. C. M. P., & Crone, E. A. (2014). The neural coding of feedback learning across child and adolescent development. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(8), 1705-1720. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00594 [details]
    • Peters, S., Koolschijn, P. C. M. P., Crone, E. A., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2014). Strategies influence neural activity for feedback learning across child and adolescent development. Neuropsychologia, 62, 365-374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.006 [details]
    • Raijmakers, M. E. J., Kan, K. J., Ploeger, A., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2014). Nonlinear epigenetic variance in developmental processes. In P. C. M. Molenaar, R. M. Lerner, & K. M. Newell (Eds.), Handbook of developmental systems theory and methodology (pp. 171-187). Guilford Press. http://www.tweelingenregister.org/nederlands/verslaggeving/NTR-publicaties_2013/Raijmakers_chapter7_2013.pdf [details]
    • Raijmakers, M. E. J., Mandell, D. J., van Es, S. E., & Counihan, M. (2014). Children's strategy use when playing strategic games. Synthese, 191(3), 355-370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0212-x [details]
    • Raijmakers, M. E. J., Schmittmann, V. D., & Visser, I. (2014). Costs and benefits of automatization in category learning of ill-defined rules. Cognitive Psychology, 69, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.12.002 [details]
    • ter Schure, S., Mandell, D. J., Escudero, P., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Johnson, S. P. (2014). Learning Stimulus-Location Associations in 8- and 11-Month-Old Infants: Multimodal Versus Unimodal Information. Infancy, 19(5), 476-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12057 [details]
    • van Bers, B. M. C. W., Visser, I., & Raijmakers, M. (2014). Preschoolers can form abstract rule representations regardless of cognitive flexibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 124, 50-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.017 [details]
    • van Bers, B. M. C. W., Visser, I., & Raijmakers, M. (2014). Preschoolers learn to switch with causally related feedback. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.03.007 [details]
    • van der Maas, H. L. J., Kan, K. J., Hofman, A., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2014). Dynamics of development: a complex systems approach. In P. C. M. Molenaar, R. M. Lerner, & K. M. Newell (Eds.), Handbook of developmental systems theory and methodology (pp. 270-286). Guilford Press. [details]

    2013

    • Gierasimczuk, N., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2013). An analytic tableaux model for Deductive Mastermind empirically tested with a massively used online learning system. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 22(3), 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-013-9177-5 [details]
    • Wanrooij, K., Escudero, P., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2013). What do listeners learn from exposure to a vowel distribution? An analysis of listening strategies in distributional learning. Journal of Phonetics, 41(5), 307-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2013.03.005 [details]

    2012

    • Gierasimczuk, N., van der Maas, H., & Raijmakers, M. (2012). Logical and Psychological Analysis of Deductive Mastermind. In J. Szymanik, & R. Verbrugge (Eds.), Logic & Cognition Workshop 2012: Proceedings of the Logic & Cognition Workshop at ESSLLI 2012 : Opole, Poland, 13-17 August, 2012 (pp. 1-13). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 883). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-883/paper1.pdf [details]
    • Mandell, D. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2012). Using a single feature to discriminate and form categories: the interaction between color, form and exemplar number. Infant Behavior and Development, 35(3), 348-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.04.003 [details]
    • Schmittmann, V. D., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2012). Distinct discrimination learning strategies and their relation with spatial memory and attentional control in 4- to 14-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(4), 644-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2011.10.010 [details]
    • Visser, I., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2012). Developing representations of compound stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, [73]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00073 [details]

    2011

    • Raijmakers, M. E. J., van Es, S., & Counihan, M. (2011). Children's Strategy Use in Playing Strategic Games. In J. van Eijk, & R. Verbrugge (Eds.), RAOM-2011 : Reasoning About Other Minds: Logical and Cognitive Perspectives: Proceedings of the Workshop on Reasoning About Other Minds: Logical and Cognitive Perspectives : Groningen, The Netherlands, July 11th, 2011 (pp. 137-148). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 751). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-751/reasoningminds2011_submission_12.pdf [details]
    • van Bers, B. M. C. W., Visser, I., van Schijndel, T. J. P., Mandell, D. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2011). The dynamics of development on the Dimensional Change Card Sorting task. Developmental Science, 14(5), 960-971. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01045.x [details]

    2010

    • Kan, K. J., Ploeger, A., Raijmakers, M. E. J., Dolan, C. V., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2010). Nonlinear epigenetic variance: review and simulations. Developmental Science, 13(1), 11-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00858.x [details]
    • Ploeger, A., Raijmakers, M. E. J., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Galis, F. (2010). The association between autism and errors in early embryogenesis: what is the causal mechanism? Biological Psychiatry, 67(7), 602-607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.10.010 [details]
    • Schmittmann, V. D., Dolan, C. V., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Batchelder, W. H. (2010). Parameter identification in multinomial processing tree models. Behavior Research Methods, 42(3), 836-846. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.3.836 [details]
    • van Schijndel, T. J. P., Franse, R. K., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2010). The exploratory behavior scale: assessing young visitors hands-on behavior in science museums. Science Education, 94(5), 794-809. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20394 [details]
    • van Schijndel, T. J. P., Singer, E., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2010). A sciencing programme and young childrenʼs exploratory play in the sandpit. The European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7(5), 603-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405620903412344 [details]

    2009

    • Ploeger, A., van der Maas, H. L. J., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Galis, F. (2009). Why did the savant syndrome not spread in the population? A psychiatric example of a developmental constraint. Psychiatry Research, 166(1), 85-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2007.11.010 [details]
    • Raijmakers, M. E. J., Coffey, E., Stevenson, C., Winkel, J., & Berkeljon, A. (2009). An ART neural network model of discrimination shift learning. In N. Taatgen, & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-first annual conference of the cognitive science society (pp. 791-798) [details]
    • Visser, I., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Pothos, E. M. (2009). Individual strategies in artificial grammar learning. The American Journal of Psychology, 122(3), 293-307. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27784404 [details]
    • van Es, S. E., van Schijndel, T. J. P., Franse, R., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2009). Children’s thoughts on unborn babies: representational redescription in preconceptions of children on fetal development. In The annual meeting of the cognitive science society Amsterdam (pp. 112-117) http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2009/papers/22/paper22.pdf [details]

    2008

    • Ploeger, A., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2008). Is evolutionary psychology a metatheory for psychology? A discussion of four major issues in psychology from an evolutionary developmental perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 19(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10478400701774006 [details]
    • van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., Zanolie, K., Rombouts, S. A. R. B., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Crone, E. A. (2008). Evaluating the negative or valuing the positive? Neural mechanisms supporting feedback-based learning across development. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28(38), 9495-9503. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1485-08.2008 [details]

    2019

    • van den Ham, P., Bredeweg, B., & Raijmakers, M. (2019). Analysing visitor flow using a Bluetooth positioning system. In K. Beuls, B. Bogaerts, G. Bontempi, P. Geurts, N. Harley, B. Lebichot, T. Lenaerts, G. Louppe, & P. Van Eecke (Eds.), BNAIC/BENELEARN 2019 : proceedings of the Reference AI & ML Conference for Belgium, Netherlands & Luxemburg: proceedings of the 31st Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2019) and the 28th Belgian Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (Benelearn 2019), Brussels, Belgium, November 6-8, 2019 [118] (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2491). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2491/abstract118.pdf [details]

    2012

    • Raijmakers, M. (2012). Het verwerven van inzicht. In R. Franse (Ed.), Reizen door het landschap van informeel leren: toepassen van visies op leren in de praktijk (pp. 77-89). Amsterdam: NEMO Science Learning Center en VSC. [details]

    2009

    • Visser, I., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2009). Hidden Markov models for individual time series. In J. Valsiner, P. C. M. Molenaar, M. C. D. P. Lyra, & N. Chaudhary (Eds.), Dynamic process methodology in the social and developmental sciences (pp. 269-289). Springer. [details]
    • van der Maas, H. L. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2009). Transitions in cognitive development: prospects and limitations of a neural dynamic approach. In J. P. Spencer, M. S. C. Thomas, & J. L. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a unified theory of development: connectionism and dynamic systems theory re-considered (pp. 299-312). Oxford University Press. [details]

    2008

    • Ploeger, A., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2008). Is evolutionary developmental biology a viable approach to the study of the human mind? Reply. Psychological Inquiry, 19(1), 41-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/10478400701774147 [details]

    2022

    • Agirdag, O., Biesta, G., Bosker, R., Kuiper, R., Nieveen, N., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & van Tartwijk, J. (2022). Structuur en regelmaat. Naar een systeem voor periodiek curriculumonderhoud van het funderend onderwijs. Tussenadvies 4 Wetenschappelijke Curriculumcommissie. Curriculumcommissie.

    2021

    • Agirdag, O., Biesta, G., Bosker, R., Kuiper, R., Nieveen, N., Raijmakers, M., & van Tartwijk, J. (2021). Doel en ruimte. Tussenadvies 2 Wetenschappelijke Curriculumcommissie. Curriculumcommissie.
    • Agirdag, O., Biesta, G., Bosker, R., Kuiper, R., Nieveen, N., Raijmakers, M., & van Tartwijk, J. (2021). Examenprogramma’s in perspectief. Tussenadvies 3 Wetenschappelijke Curriculumcommissie. Curriculumcommissie.
    • Agirdag, O., Biesta, G., Bosker, R., Kuiper, R., Nieveen, N., Raijmakers, M., van Tartwijk, J., & Boogaard, M. (2021). Kaders voor kansen. Naar een beoordelingskader kansengelijkheid voor het funderend onderwijs. Verdiepende studie Wetenschappelijke Curriculumcommissie. Curriculumcommissie.

    2020

    2019

    • Raijmakers, M., & Jansen, B. (2019). Cognitieve ontwikkeling in de adolescentie. In W. Slot, & M. van Aken (Eds.), Psychologie van de adolescentie: basisboek (26e ed., pp. 117-142). ThiemeMeulenhoff. [details]
      • Downloads
    • van der Maas, H., & Raijmakers, M. (2019). Optimaal onderwijs voor iedereen. In H. van de Werfhorst, & E. van Hest (Eds.), Gelijke kansen in de stad (pp. 97-109). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463728829 [details]

    2015

    2010

    • Raijmakers, M., van Schijndel, T., Franse, R., & van Es, S. (2010). De ideeënwereld van kinderen. In TalentenKracht magazine (pp. 110-114). TalentenKracht/Platform Bèta Techniek. [details]
    • Segers, E., & Raijmakers, M. (2010). Logisch redeneren: tijdens het spelen van spelletjes. In TalentenKracht magazine (pp. 63-64). Den Haag: TalentenKracht/Platform Bèta Techniek. [details]
    • van Schijndel, T., Franse, R., & Raijmakers, M. (2010). Kleuters aan zet. In TalentenKracht magazine (pp. 6-14). TalentenKracht/Platform Bèta Techniek. [details]

    2022

    • van Schijndel, T. J. P., Tio, P., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2022). Individual differences in preschoolers’ scientific thinking: relations between exploration and knowledge acquisition under different instructional conditions. Paper presented at EARLI SIG 5 2022 CONFERENCE Learning and Development in Early Childhood
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    2018

    • Sachisthal, M. S. M., Jansen, B. R. J., Peetsma, T. T. D., Dalege, J., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2018). The network approach in motivation research - psychological, social and similarity-based networks.. Paper presented at TIME: Time perspective Intervention of Motivation Enhancement. , Aarhus, Denmark.

    Prize / grant

    • Gierasimczuk, N., van der Maas, H. L. J. & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2012). The Best Paper Prize for "Logical and Psychological Analysis of Deductive Mastermind".
    • Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2012). Guided Discovery Learning Adapted to the Individual Child. Grant from Platform Bèta Techniek - TalentenKracht. € 400k..

    Talk / presentation

    • Raijmakers, M. E. J. (invited speaker) (1-9-2012). The development of science learning from a psychological perspective, Keynote lecture at Gender & STEM network conference.
    • Raijmakers, M. E. J. (invited speaker) (1-7-2012). Partnership between university and the Science Center, Keynote lecture at: Better questions, stronger alliances: Strengthening links between research and practice in the informal sector. Kings college, London.
    • Boersma, P. (invited speaker), Raijmakers, M. E. J. (invited speaker), Bogels, S. M. (invited speaker), Aktar, E. (invited speaker), ter Schure, S. (invited speaker), Escudero Neyra, P. R. (invited speaker) & Mandell, D. J. (invited speaker) (14-9-2010). Early category formation, Kickoff Symposium of the university research priority programme Brain & Cognition, Cognitive Science Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

    Others

    • Raijmakers, M. (participant) (12-8-2019 - 19-8-2019). 18th biennial conference of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI 2019), Aachen (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Raijmakers, M. (participant) (6-6-2019 - 7-6-2019). ECSITE 2019, Kopenhagen. pre-conference workshop RevGroup: Measuring learning from exploring and making (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2020

    • Dalege, J., Raijmakers, M. E. J., Sachisthal, M. & Jansen, B. R. J. (2020). Relating teenagers’ science interest network characteristics to later science course enrolment: An analysis of Australian PISA 2006 and Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth data. SAGE Journals. https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5140476.v1
    • Sachisthal, M., Dalege, J., Jansen, B. R. J. & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2020). sj-xlsx-3-aed-10.1177_0004944120957477 - Supplemental material for Relating teenagers’ science interest network characteristics to later science course enrolment: An analysis of Australian PISA 2006 and Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth data. SAGE Journals. https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.13042350.v1
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