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A nonmusician with severe Alzheimer’s dementia learns a new song

Amee BairdAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders and Psychology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Heidi UmbachAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders and Psychology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaView further author information
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William Forde ThompsonAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders and Psychology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaView further author information
Pages 36-40 | Received 25 Aug 2016, Accepted 16 Jan 2017, Published online: 21 Feb 2017

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