Stability of executive function and predictions to adaptive behavior from middle childhood to pre-adolescence

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Harms, Madeline B ^a   Zayas, Vivian ^b   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^c   Carlson, Stephanie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Affective decision making; Event related potentials; Executive function; Reward processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899685184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00331     Document Type: Article

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