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   Michelle Dawson

   Posted December 2, 2010 at 6:21 am | Permalink

   There’s a replication published in the same journal, 33 years later http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078566/pdf/jaba-40-04-773.pdf?tool=pmcentrez

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   cavall de quer

   Posted December 3, 2010 at 9:12 am | Permalink

   I wanted to write a comment, but I couldn’t think what to say……

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