Linking Executive Functions and Procedural Metacognition

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 39-44

  Roebers, Claudia M ^a   Feurer, Emanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Executive function; Procedural metacognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958638675     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12159     Document Type: Article

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