The development of hot and cool executive functions in childhood and adolescence: Are we getting warmer?

Handbook of Executive Functioning

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 45-65

  Peterson, Eric ^a   Welsh, Marilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8106-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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