Biological constraints on literacy acquisition

Reading and Writing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 213-237

  Cossu, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain and reading; Dyslexia; Literacy acquisition; Modularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011633629     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008080417153     Document Type: Article

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