Individual and age-related differences in children's working memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-82

  Swanson, H Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030043051     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03197273     Document Type: Article

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