Recent advances in relational complexity theory and its application to cognitive development

Cognitive Development and Working Memory: A Dialogue between Neo-Piagetian Theories and Cognitive Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 47-68

  Andrews, Glenda ^a   Halford, Graeme S ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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