Sleep as a Window Into Early Neural Development: Shifts in Sleep-Dependent Learning Effects Across Early Childhood

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 183-189

  Gómez, Rebecca L ^a   Edgin, Jamie O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Memory; Sleep

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938746169     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12130     Document Type: Article

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