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Original Articles

The long-term learning effect related to the repeated use of the Finnish matrix sentence test and the Finnish digit triplet test

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Pages 753-762 | Received 21 Jul 2019, Accepted 04 Apr 2020, Published online: 27 Apr 2020

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