Processing efficiency, representational capacity, and reasoning: Modeling their dynamic interactions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-103

  Demetriou, Andreas ^a   Mouyi, Antigoni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

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