Is digit symbol incidental recall incidental to digit symbol performance?
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The Symbol Digit Modalities Test - Oral version: Italian normative data.
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0887-6177
DOI: 10.1016/0887-6177(95)92909-o