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Child Neuropsychology
A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence
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Research Article

A child-focused version of the Attention Network Task designed to investigate interactions between the attention networks, including the endogenous orienting network

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Pages 666-690 | Received 29 Aug 2019, Accepted 01 Dec 2019, Published online: 13 Dec 2019

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