Emotional agnosis and theory of mind

The Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 109-123

  Broicher, Sarah ^a   Jokeit, Hennric ^a  

^a SWISS EPILEPSY CENTER   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511977145.011     Document Type: Chapter

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