The frontal feedback model of the evolution of the human mind: Part 2, the human brain and the frontal feedback system

Journal of Mind and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 233-263

  Noack, Raymond A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL LOBE; HOMINID; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MODEL; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYMBOLISM; THINKING;

EID: 42549113398     PISSN: 02710137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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