Does Early-Life Exposure to Stress Shape or Impair Cognition?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 407-412

  Frankenhuis, Willem E ^a,b   de Weerth, Carolina ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

cognitive development; developmental specialization; early life experience; evolutionary developmental psychology; learning and memory; maltreatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884683456     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721413484324     Document Type: Article

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