Inhibition and young children's performance on the Tower of London task

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 216-226

  Baughman, Frank D ^a   Cooper, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COGNITIVE CONTROL FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 34548686563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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