Motor coordination, working memory, and academic achievement in a normative adolescent sample: Testing a mediation model

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 766-780

  Rigoli, Daniela ^a   Piek, Jan P ^a   Kane, Robert ^a   Oosterlaan, Jaap ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Adolescents; Motor coordination; Normative sample; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872939495     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acs061     Document Type: Article

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