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Handedness, language dominance and aphasia: a genetic model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1985

I. C. McManus
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Psychological Medicine Monograph Supplement , Volume 8: Handedness, language dominance and aphasia: a genetic model , 1985 , pp. 3 - 40
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