Relationship between the number of life events and memory capacity in children

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 580-598

  Van Der Heijden, Kristiaan B ^a   Suurland, Jill ^a   Swaab, Hanna ^a   De Sonneville, Leo M J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Life events; Memory; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SLEEP; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; URBAN POPULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NETHERLANDS; PARENTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SLEEP; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84855786658     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2011.554391     Document Type: Article

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