Attention as a cueing function during kindergarten children's dimensional change task performance

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 441-454

  Coldren, Jeffrey T ^a   Colombo, John ^b  

^a YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional cueing; Cognitive complexity and control theory; Cognitive flexibility; Dimensional change card sort; Executive function; Inhibition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349982090     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.632     Document Type: Article

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