How working memory and cognitive modeling functions of the cerebellum contribute to discoveries in mathematics

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-29

  Vandervert, Larry R ^a  

^a American Nonlinear Systems   (United States)

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EID: 0037400280     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-118X(01)00014-9     Document Type: Article

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