Working memory and anxiety: Exploring the interplay of individual differences across development

Working Memory: The Connected Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 209-238

  Visu Petra, Laura ^a   Cheie, Lavinia ^a   Miu, Andrei C ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203094600     Document Type: Chapter

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