Inhibitory processes in young children and individual variation in short-term memory

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 669-688

  Espy, Kimberly Andrews ^a   Bull, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 25444448487     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326942dn2802_6     Document Type: Article

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