The Neuronal Recycling Hypothesis for Reading and the Question of Reading Universals

Mind and Language

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 255-269

  Coltheart, Max ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84901837973     PISSN: 02681064     EISSN: 14680017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12049     Document Type: Article

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