The development of future thinking: Young children’s ability to construct event sequences to achieve future goals

2014/04/28 by Janani Prabhakar, Judith A. Hudson · 8 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognition #Cognitive development #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive science #Computer science #Construct (python library) #Developmental psychology #Early Childhood Education and Development #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Memory development #Psychology #Working memory

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2014.02.004

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