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Original Articles

Ventral simultanagnosia and prosopagnosia for unfamiliar faces due to a right posterior superior temporal sulcus and angular gyrus lesion

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Pages 122-129 | Received 28 Apr 2015, Accepted 23 Jun 2015, Published online: 24 Jul 2015

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