The impaired learning of semantic knowledge following bilateral medial temporal-lobe resection

@article{Gabrieli1988TheIL,
  title={The impaired learning of semantic knowledge following bilateral medial temporal-lobe resection},
  author={John D. E. Gabrieli and Neal J. Cohen and Suzanne Corkin},
  journal={Brain and Cognition},
  year={1988},
  volume={7},
  pages={157-177}
}
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