The Role of Executive Control of Attention and Selective Encoding for Preschoolers' Learning

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 146-159

  Roderer, Thomas ^a   Krebs, Saskia ^a   Schmid, Corinne ^a   Roebers, Claudia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional control; Encoding strategy; Eye movement; Eye tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857788351     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.738     Document Type: Article

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