Staying on the job: the frontal lobes control individual performance variability.

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Published in Brain on July 22, 2003

Authors

Donald T Stuss1, Kelly J Murphy, Malcolm A Binns, Michael P Alexander

Author Affiliations

1: Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. dstuss@rotman-baycrest.on.ca

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