The Relationship between Sustained Attention and Cognitive Performance in 17-24-Month Old Toddlers

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 127-146

  Choudhury, Naseem ^a,b   Gorman, Kathleen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Problem solving; Sustained attention; Toddlers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034411369     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-7219(200009)9:3<127::AID-ICD225>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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