Conceptual models of semantics: Process and content in semantic memory

Neural Basis of Semantic Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 247-264

  Koenig, Phyllis ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84927049521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511544965.011     Document Type: Chapter

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