Importance of frontal motor cortex in divided attention and simultaneous temporal processing

Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 351-370

  Pang, Kevin C H ^a   Devin McAuley, J ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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