Three-year-old children can access their own memory to guide responses on a visual matching task

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 750-760

  Balcomb, Frances K ^a   Gerken, LouAnn ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; VISION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 49549103061     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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