Age-Related Changes in Sensitivity to Relative Reward Frequency

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 30-36

  Tripp, Gail ^a   Alsop, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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