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Federico, G. Eating Russula mushrooms is a matter of semantic knowledge. Comment on “The elicitation of affordance depends on conceptual attributes: evidence from a virtual reality study” by Lai et al. (2023). Exp Brain Res 241, 1459–1461 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06630-9
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