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Original Articles

Executive functions, categorization of probabilities, and learning from feedback: What does really matter for decision making under explicit risk conditions?

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Pages 1025-1039 | Received 31 Jan 2011, Accepted 21 May 2011, Published online: 23 Aug 2011

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