Neural mechanisms of emotion regulation in children: Implications for normative development and emotion-related disorders

Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development: New Directions and International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 173-198

  Hum, Kathryn M ^a   Lewis, Marc D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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