Trail making test in assessing children with reading disabilities: A test of executive functions or content information

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 1355-1362

  Närhi, Vesa ^a   Räsänen, Pekka ^a   Metsäpelto, Riitta Leena ^a   Ahonen, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

CHILD; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRAIL MAKING TEST;

EID: 0031157797     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.84.3c.1355     Document Type: Article

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