Past and Future Episodic Thinking in Middle Childhood

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 625-643

  Wang, Qi ^a   Capous, Diana ^a   Koh, Jessie Bee Kim ^a   Hou, Yubo ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUTURE EPISODIC THINKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METHODOLOGY; PAST EPISODIC THINKING; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SCIENTIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THINKING; VIDEOTAPE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

EID: 84926105448     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2013.784977     Document Type: Article

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