Comparability of developmental cognitive assessments between standard and computer testing methods

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Mandell, Dorothy J ^a,b   Sackett, Gene P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Infant; Learning; Memory; Primate; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MACACA; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEWBORN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

MACACA NEMESTRINA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COGNITION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA NEMESTRINA; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 65849222580     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20329     Document Type: Article

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