Motivation and cognitive control: from behavior to neural mechanism.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Annual Review of Psychology

• Publication date

  2015-01-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015044PMID 25251491
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