A capacity approach to syntactic comprehension disorders: Making normal adults perform like aphasic patients

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 671-717

  Miyake, Akira ^a   Carpenter, Patricia A ^a   Just, Marcel Adam ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84937310689     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643299408251989     Document Type: Article

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