A new account of the neurocognitive foundations of impairments in space, time, and number processing in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-58

  Simon, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Brain; Cognition; Number; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; REVIEW; SPACE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL BONE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 44149103842     PISSN: 19405510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ddrr.8     Document Type: Review

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