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Neural responses to multimodal ostensive signals in 5-month-old infants

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Neural responses to multimodal ostensive signals in 5-month-old infants. / Parise, Eugenio; Csibra, Gergely.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 8, No. 8, e72360, 19.08.2013.

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Parise E, Csibra G. Neural responses to multimodal ostensive signals in 5-month-old infants. PLoS ONE. 2013 Aug 19;8(8):e72360. Epub 2013 Aug 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072360

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Parise, Eugenio ; Csibra, Gergely. / Neural responses to multimodal ostensive signals in 5-month-old infants. In: PLoS ONE. 2013 ; Vol. 8, No. 8.

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