Boosting children's memory by training mothers in the use of an elaborative conversational style as an event unfolds

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-65

  Boland, Amy M ^a   Haden, Catherine A ^a   Ornstein, Peter A ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRAINING;

EID: 4043160200     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327647JCD4,1-02     Document Type: Article

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