Traffic noise and executive functioning in urban primary school children: The moderating role of gender

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 337-341

  Belojevic, Goran ^a   Evans, Gary W ^b   Paunovic, Katarina ^a   Jakovljevic, Branko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Child; Executive functioning; Gender; Noise; Primary schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863330667     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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