Bottom-up and top-down dynamics in young children's executive function: Labels aid 3-year-olds' performance on the Dimensional Change Card Sort

Cognitive Development

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 222-232

  Doebel, Sabine ^a   Zelazo, Philip David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Cognitive development; Dimensional Change Card Sort; Executive function; Language and thought; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882788920     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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