Training attentional control in infancy

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 1543-1547

  Wass, Sam ^a,b   Porayska Pomsta, Kaska ^b   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053316168     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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