Executive Function: Theoretical Concerns

Self- and Social-Regulation: Exploring the Relations Between Social Interaction, Social Understanding, and the Development of Executive Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Martin, Jack ^a   Failows, Laura ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptual issues; Critical analysis; Executive function; Human agency; Social cognition; Social cognitive development; Theoretical issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920610258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327694.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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