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Digital Handwriting Analysis of Characters in Chinese Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Is surface dyslexia in Chinese the same as in alphabetic one?
Ben-yan Luo1, Xiao-yu Zhao, Yan-wen Wang
1Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Medicine College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China.
Chinese Medical Journal
|March 22, 2007
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