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Author Correction: No evidence for a bilingual executive function advantage in the ABCD study
Anthony Steven Dick1, Nelcida L Garcia2, Shannon M Pruden2
1Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. adick@fiu.edu.
Nature Human Behaviour
|September 27, 2019
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An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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