An Experimental Approach to Executive Fingerprinting in Young Children

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 107-123

  Beveridge, Michael ^a,b   Jarrold, Christopher ^b   Pettit, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous performance task; EF tasks; Executive function (EF); Memory and inhibition; School age children; Start stop test; Stroop like task

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036384510     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.300     Document Type: Article

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