Attention performance in young adults with learning disabilities

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-133

  Sterr, Annette M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional switching; Auditory verbal working memory; Nondyslexic learning disability; Sustained attention; Test of Everyday Attention; Visual selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742289075     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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