Individual differences in children's private speech: Consistency across tasks, timepoints, and contexts

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-213

  Lidstone, Jane ^a   Meins, Elizabeth ^a   Fernyhough, Charles ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Private speech; Problem solving; Verbal mediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052454203     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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