The relationship between preschoolers' selective attention and memory for location strategies

Cognitive Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 242-255

  Blumberg, Fran C ^a   Torenberg, Meira ^a   Randall, John D ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Selective attention; Spatial; Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744455184     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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