Methodological Considerations Regarding Cognitive Interventions in Dementia
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1 Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile 3 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina 4 Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia 5 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Correspondence: [email protected]
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