Working memory capacity and its role in cognitive development: Are age differences driven by the same processes across the lifespan?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-133

  de Ribaupierre, Anik ^a   Fagot, Delphine ^a   Lecerf, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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