Children's working memory: Its structure and relationship to fluid intelligence

Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 210-221

  Hornung, Caroline ^a   Brunner, Martin ^a   Reuter, Robert A P ^a   Martin, Romain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Children; Fluid intelligence; Short term storage; Structural equation models; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957652897     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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