Association between formal operational thought and executive function as measured by the Tower of Hanoi-Revised

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-188

  Emick, Jessica ^a   Welsh, Marilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; Formal operations; Inductive reasoning; Tower of Hanoi Revised; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144387567     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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