Neuropsychological assessment of African children: evidence for a universal brain/behavior omnibus within a coconstructivist paradigm.

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  title={Neuropsychological assessment of African children: evidence for a universal brain/behavior omnibus within a coconstructivist paradigm.},
  author={Michael Joseph Boivin and Bruno Giordani},
  journal={Progress in brain research},
  year={2009},
  volume={178},
  pages={
          113-35
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23707638}
}
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