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Age and sex differences in a virtual version of the reorientation task

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    Luciana Picucci, Alessandro O. Caffò & Andrea Bosco

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Picucci, L., Caffò, A.O. & Bosco, A. Age and sex differences in a virtual version of the reorientation task. Cogn Process 10 (Suppl 2), 272–275 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-009-0321-8

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