Cognition at risk: Gestalt/feature-intensive processing, attention deficit, and substance abuse

Current Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-101

  Sharps, Matthew J ^a   Price Sharps, Jana L ^a,b   Day, Sandy Schulte ^a,c   Nunes, Michael A ^a,d   Villegas, Amy Boothby ^a,b   Mitchell, Sandra ^a,e  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Alliant University   (United States)

^c Women's Prison   (United States)

^d School Psychologist   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 29544439057     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-005-1008-7     Document Type: Article

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