Development and longitudinal relationships between children's executive functions, prospective memory, and metacognition

Cognitive Development

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 99-113

  Spiess, Manuela A ^a   Meier, Beat ^a   Roebers, Claudia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Executive functions; Longitudinal relationships; Metacognition; Prospective memory; Young school children

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959195361     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.02.003     Document Type: Article

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