The association between neuropsychological scores and ethnicity, language, and acculturation variables in a large patient population.

@article{Boone2007TheAB,
  title={The association between neuropsychological scores and ethnicity, language, and acculturation variables in a large patient population.},
  author={Kyle Brauer Boone and Tara L. Victor and Johnny H Wen and Jill Razani and Marcel O. Pont{\'o}n},
  journal={Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists},
  year={2007},
  volume={22 3},
  pages={
          355-65
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5668504}
}
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