Executive control training from middle childhood to adolescence

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Karbach, Julia ^a   Unger, Kerstin ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of Cognitive ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Childhood; Cognitive plasticity; Cognitive training; Executive control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904666514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00390     Document Type: Review

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