Executive functioning theory and autism

Handbook of Executive Functioning

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 121-141

  Geurts, Hilde M ^a,b   De Vries, Marieke ^a   Van den Bergh, Sanne F W M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Dr Leo Kannerhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8106-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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