Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Model for Understanding the Relationship Between Language and Memory

Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 319-328

  Tracy, Joseph I ^a   Boswell, B Stephanie ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045352-1.00031-8     Document Type: Chapter

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