Preliminary remarks on type of task and delay in children's prospective memory

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 515-519

  Nigro, Giovanna ^a   Senese, Vincenzo Paolo ^b   Natullo, Ornella ^b   Sergi, Ida ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL; REFERENCE VALUE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036781652     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2002.95.2.515     Document Type: Article

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