Executive functions in school-age children born very prematurely

Early Human Development

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 247-254

  Bayless, Sarah ^a   Stevenson, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive outcome; Executive function; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PREMATURITY; SAMPLE; SKILL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE;

EID: 33947301448     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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