The endurance of children's working memory: A recall time analysis

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 156-163

  Towse, John N ^a   Hitch, Graham J ^b   Hamilton, Z ^c   Pirrie, Sarah ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 51749115728     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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