Does Reading Make You Smarter? Literacy and the Development of Verbal Intelligence

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue C, 1993, Pages 133-180

  Stanovich, Keith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; READING; RECALL; REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL RECALL; READING; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0027346752     PISSN: 00652407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2407(08)60302-X     Document Type: Article

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