The underlying mechanisms of semantic memory loss in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychologia
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0028-3932
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.08.010