Contribution of reactive and proactive control to children's working memory performance: Insight from item recall durations in response sequence planning

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1999-2008

  Chevalier, Nicolas ^a   James, Tiffany D ^b   Wiebe, Sandra A ^c   Nelson, Jennifer Mize ^b   Espy, Kimberly Andrews ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Reactive and proactive control; Recall duration; Response sequence planning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903199823     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036644     Document Type: Article

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