Age-group differences in set-switching and set-maintenance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-215

  Huizinga, Mariëtte ^a   Van Der Molen, Maurits W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34247175810     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87565640701190817     Document Type: Article

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