Where and when to look: Understanding emotional face perception in frontotemporal dementia
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2015.219.00048