Culture in Our Brains: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Brain-Behavior Relationships

Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 63-86

  Ardila, Alfredo ^a  

^a Institute Colombiano de Neuropsicologia Bogota   (Colombia)

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