Introduction: Methodologies and models in the study of executive function

Methodology of Frontal and Executive Function

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-37

  Rabbitt, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203344187-5     Document Type: Chapter

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