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Child Neuropsychology
A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence
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Lexical-semantic body knowledge in 5- to 11-year-old children: How spatial body representation influences body semantics

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Pages 451-464 | Received 19 Aug 2013, Accepted 31 Mar 2014, Published online: 09 May 2014

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