Understanding the dimensional change card sort: Perspectives from task success and failure

Cognitive Development

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 347-365

  Towse, John N ^a   Redbond, Jo ^a   Houston Price, Carmel M T ^b   Cook, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive Saliency; Inhibition; Rule embedding; Task set

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038394927     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-2014(00)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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