Planning ability following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: Performance on a 4-disk version of the tower of london

Brain Impairment

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-324

  Shum, David ^a   Gill, Hannah ^b   Banks, Miranda ^a   Maujean, Annick ^a   Griffin, Janelle ^c   Ward, Heather ^d  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Albany Creek   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adults; Planning; TBI; Tower of London

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049112051     PISSN: 14439646     EISSN: 18395252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/brim.10.3.320     Document Type: Article

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