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Working memory processing for human voice perception in a patient with mild cognitive impairment: an FMRI study
Michihiko Koeda1, Amane Tateno, Kosuke Ishizaka
1Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. mkoeda@nms.ac.jp
Journal of Nippon Medical School = Nippon Ika Daigaku Zasshi
|September 7, 2010
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