Executive control emerging from dynamic interactions between brain systems mediating language, working memory and attentional processes

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 105-121

  Gruber, Oliver ^a   Goschke, Thomas ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolutionary; Executive functions; Frontal lobe; Goals; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842325231     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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