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Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
A Journal on Normal and Dysfunctional Development
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Original Article

Aging in cognitive control of social processing: evidence from the attention network test

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Pages 128-142 | Received 14 Mar 2019, Accepted 06 Jan 2020, Published online: 15 Jan 2020

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