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Are living and non-living category-specific deficits causally linked to impaired perceptual or associative knowledge? evidence from a category-specific double dissociation

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Pages 311-338 | Received 13 Jan 1998, Accepted 19 Mar 1998, Published online: 17 Jan 2008

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