Auditory agnosia

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Quantitative Assessment of Cortical Auditory-tactile Processing in Children with Disabilities
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Published on: January 29, 2014

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L Robert Slevc1, Alison R Shell1

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Handbook of Clinical Neurology
|March 2, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
amusiaauditory agnosiaenvironmental sound agnosiapure word deafnessrapid temporal processingspeech perception deficits

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