It matters what you practice: differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project.
@article{Singer2019ItMW,
title={It matters what you practice: differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project.},
author={Tania Singer and Veronika Engert},
journal={Current opinion in psychology},
year={2019},
volume={28},
pages={
151-158
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59291558}
}131 Citations
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