The facilitative effect of positive stimuli on 3-year-olds' flexible rule use

Cognitive Development

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 456-473

  Qu, Li ^a   Zelazo, Philip David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS); Emotion; Executive function; facilitation; Rule use

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348930672     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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