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  1. Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

    Lisa Tabor Connor

  2. City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, USA

    Loraine K. Obler

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Caplan, D., Waters, G. (2002). Sentence Comprehension in Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Connor, L.T., Obler, L.K. (eds) Neurobehavior of Language and Cognition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46898-0_4

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