Mind-culture interactions: How writing molds mental fluidity in early development

Intelligence

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 622-637

  Kazi, Smaragda ^a   Demetriou, Andreas ^b   Spanoudis, George ^c   Zhang, Xiang Kui ^d   Wang, Yuan ^d  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Inference; Intelligence; Processing efficiency; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867881668     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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