Physiology of Executive Functions: The Perception-Action Cycle

Principles of Frontal Lobe Function

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fuster, Joaquín M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Cognitive representations; Executive memory; Long term memory; Nerocortex; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940515064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195134971.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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