Attentional performance, age and scholastic achievement in healthy children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Trautmann, Mireille ^a,b   Daniel Zepf, Florianniel ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; ACHIEVEMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SCHOOL;

ACHIEVEMENT; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84859050403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032279     Document Type: Article

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