The Human Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Krueger, Frank ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Even sequence; Event perception; Goal directd behavior; Prefrontal cortex; Structured event complexes

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849095178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0025     Document Type: Chapter

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