A developmental theory of mental attention: Its application to measurement and task analysis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 13-46

  Pascual Leone, J ^a   Johnson, Janice ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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