The effect of the number of A trials on performance on the A-not-B task

Infancy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 519-529

  Marcovitch, Stuart ^a,b   Zelazo, Philip David ^a   Schmuckler, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERROR; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; PERSEVERATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33747177340     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0304_06     Document Type: Article

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