Cognitive control: Easy to identify but hard to define

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 212-216

  Morton, J Bruce ^a   Ezekiel, Fredrick ^a   Wilk, Heather A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Cognitive neuroscience; Computational modeling; Evolution; Language

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEUROSCIENCES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79961234687     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01139.x     Document Type: Article

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