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Frank Benson and I published this paper for several reasons. Kinsbourne and Warrington had already reported the presence of Gerstmann’s syndrome in childhood. Our first case was of interest, however, since he was a child of superior intellectual capacities without any history of dyslexia.
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Geschwind, N. (1974). Developmental Gerstmann Syndrome. In: Selected Papers on Language and the Brain. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2093-0_18
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