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Caselli L, Chelazzi L (2011) Does the Macaque Monkey Provide a Good Model for Studying Human Executive Control? A Comparative Behavioral Study of Task Switching. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21489. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021489
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Animal Modelling of Testing Task Switching
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