Qualitative change in executive control during childhood and adulthood

Cognition

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-12

  Chevalier, Nicolas ^a   Huber, Kristina L ^b   Wiebe, Sandra A ^c   Espy, Kimberly Andrews ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Executive control; Set shifting; Strategy; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; AGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875864761     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.02.012     Document Type: Article

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