Studies of the Activation and Structural Changes of the Brain Associated with Expertise

The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 233-254

  Bilalić, Merim ^a   Campitelli, Guillermo ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1017/9781316480748.014     Document Type: Chapter

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