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Riva, G., Gaudio, S. & Dakanalis, A. I’m in a virtual body: a locked allocentric memory may impair the experience of the body in both obesity and anorexia nervosa. Eat Weight Disord 19, 133–134 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-013-0066-3
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