Dual routes to cognitive flexibility: Learning and response-conflict resolution in the dimensional change card sort task

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1308-1323

  Ramscar, Michael ^a   Dye, Melody ^b   Gustafson, Jessica W ^c   Klein, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84878771259     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12044     Document Type: Article

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