Stronger neural dynamics capture changes in infants' visual working memory capacity over development

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1379-1392

  Perone, Sammy ^a   Simmering, Vanessa R ^b   Spencer, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFANT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054956497     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01083.x     Document Type: Article

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