A different memory: Are distinctions drawn from the study of nonautistic memory appropriate to describe memory in autism?

Memory in Autism

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 311-329

  Mottron, Laurent ^a   Dawson, Michelle ^a   Soulières, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 67651170662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511490101.018     Document Type: Chapter

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