The "Why?" of Executive Function: Regional Prefrontal Contributions to Human Decision Making
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.14.00022