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Child Neuropsychology
A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Volume 26, 2020 - Issue 6
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Research Article

Assessing performance validity with the TOMM and automatized sequences task in a pediatric psychiatric inpatient setting

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Pages 801-816 | Received 08 Mar 2019, Accepted 02 Jan 2020, Published online: 15 Jan 2020

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