Fluid reasoning and the developing brain

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2009, Pages

  Ferrer, Emilio ^a   O'Hare, Elizabeth D ^b   Bunge, Silvia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Intelligence; Prefrontal cortex; Problem solving; Rostrolateral parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149372363     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.003.2009     Document Type: Review

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