Intellectual growth in children as a function of domain specific and domain general working memory subgroups

Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 481-492

  Lee Swanson, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive processing; Growth; Individual differences; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455158340     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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