Working memory and working attention: What could possibly evolve?

Current Anthropology

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Beaman, C Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77957710010     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650297     Document Type: Article

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