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Original Articles

Grapheme–colour synaesthesia yields an ordinary rather than extraordinary memory advantage: Evidence from a group study

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Pages 258-264 | Received 07 Sep 2009, Accepted 27 Nov 2009, Published online: 17 Feb 2010

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