Establishing the Reliability and Validity of a Computerized Assessment of Children's Working Memory for Use in Group Settings

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-26

  St Clair Thompson, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

memory assessment; short term memory; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890781804     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282913497344     Document Type: Article

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