Human prefrontal cortex: Processing and representational perspectives

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-147

  Wood, Jacqueline N ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PLANNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037315630     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1033     Document Type: Article

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