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Sarah M Haigh1, Jennifer A Walsh2, Carla A Mazefsky3

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Suite 420, 3501 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222, USA. haighsm@upmc.edu.

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
|March 4, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
Autism spectrum disorderInformation processingMATRICSSpeed of processing

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