What can What-When-Where (WWW) binding tasks tell us about young children's episodic foresight? Theory and two experiments

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 356-370

  Russell, James ^a   Cheke, Lucy G ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic foresight; Episodic memory; Executive control; Preschool development

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655162058     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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