Verbal pragmatics following unilateral stroke: emotional content and valence

J C Borod1, K D Rorie, L H Pick

  • 1Department of Psychology, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing 11367, USA.

Neuropsychology
|February 16, 2000
PubMed

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