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Original Articles

Performance of Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery: the roles of ethnicity and language backgrounds

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Pages 783-797 | Received 28 Jun 2016, Accepted 19 Dec 2016, Published online: 12 Jan 2017

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