Executive functioning in children, and its relations with reasoning, reading, and arithmetic

Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 427-449

  van der Sluis, Sophie ^a   de Jong, Peter F ^b   van der Leij, Aryan ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Executive functions; Inhibition; Reading; Reasoning; Shifting; Updating

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547609870     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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