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Savant Memory for Digits in a Case of Synaesthesia and Asperger Syndrome is Related to Hyperactivity in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

Daniel Bor Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jac Billington Department of Psychiatry, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Simon Baron-Cohen Department of Psychiatry, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Pages 311-319 | Received 19 Feb 2007, Accepted 28 Nov 2007, Published online: 25 Aug 2010

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