What do genes have to do with cognition?

Cognition and Motivation: Forging an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 192-214

  Johnson, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84923423265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139021463.013     Document Type: Chapter

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