Metacognitive processes in executive control development: The case of reactive and proactive control

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1125-1136

  Chevalier, Nicolas ^a   Martis, Shaina Bailey ^b   Curran, Tim ^b   Munakata, Yuko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROACTIVE CONTROL; PUPIL; REACTIVE CONTROL; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; METACOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METACOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PUPIL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84928730909     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00782     Document Type: Article

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