Executive functioning in preschool children: Performance on A-not-B and other delayed response format tasks

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 178-199

  Espy, Kimberly Andrews ^a   Kaufmann, Paul M ^a   McDiarmid, Melanie D ^a   Glisky, Martha L ^a  

^a NONE

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AGE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032728581     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1999.1117     Document Type: Article

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