Do preschoolers remember what to do? Incentive and external cues in prospective memory

Cognitive Development

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-97

  Guajardo, Nicole Ruther ^a   Best, Deborah L ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

External cues; Incentive; Memory performance; Prospective memory; Retrospective memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013156110     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(00)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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