The Dynamics of Interference Control Across Childhood and Adolescence: Distribution Analyses in Three Conflict Tasks and Ten Age Groups.
Interference control is central to cognitive control and, more generally, to many aspects of development. Despite its importance, the understanding of the processes underlying mean interference effects across development is still limited. When measured through conflict tasks, mean interference effec...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 56; no. 12; pp. 2262 - 2281 |
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American Psychological Association
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