The Human Frontal Lobes: Transcending the Default Mode through Contingent Encoding

Principles of Frontal Lobe Function

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mesulam, M Marsel ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage; Frontal lobes; Personality; Phineas gage; Prefrontal cortex

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EID: 84940483470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195134971.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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