Executive functions of six-year-old boys with normal birth weight and gestational age

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Phua, Desiree Yee Ling ^a   Rifkin Graboi, Anne ^a   Saw, Seang Mei ^b,c   Meaney, Michael J ^a,d   Qiu, Anqi ^a,c  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPONSE TIME; SINGAPORE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84860470606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036502     Document Type: Article

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