Subtraction bugs in an acalculic patient

Cortex

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 547-555

  Girelli, Luisa ^a   Delazer, Margarete ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; SKILL;

EID: 0029829955     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(96)80011-6     Document Type: Article

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