A case of prevailing deficit of nonliving categories: Is associative information more impaired than perceptual information?

Brain and Language

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-294

  Laiacona, Marcella ^a   Capitani, Erminio ^b  

^a Division of Neurology   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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