Development of phasic attention in children: Temporal analysis of alert during a detection task

Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Querne, Laurent ^a   Vernier Hauvette, Marie Pierre ^b   Berquin, Patrick ^b  

^a Amiens University Medical Center and Jules Verne University of Picardy   (France)

^b AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alertness; Delta plot; Development; Distribution analysis; Phasic attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049104252     PISSN: 13796100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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