Home sweet home: Does where you live matter to working memory and other cognitive skills?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 124-131

  Alloway, Tracy Packiam ^a   Alloway, Ross G ^a   Wootan, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning outcomes; Nonverbal IQ; Phonological awareness; Sentence memory; Socioeconomic status (SES); Working memory

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84899935849     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.11.012     Document Type: Article

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