Cross-sectional and incremental changes in working memory and mathematical problem solving

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-281

  Swanson, H Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive processing; Phonological processing; Problem solving; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745165231     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.98.2.265     Document Type: Article

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