Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 575-589 , April 2010

Forming intentions successfully: Differential compensational mechanisms of adolescents and old adults

  • Jacqueline Zöllig

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. University of Zurich, Department of Psychology, Binzmühlestrasse 14/24, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland.
    • ,
  • Mike Martin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Matthias Kliegel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Received 1 September 2008 ,Revised 9 June 2009 ,Accepted 25 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.09.010

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