The role of the prefrontal cortex in dynamic filtering

Psychobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 207-218

  Shimamura, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSCIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

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