Demographically adjusted norms for a French-Quebec version of the face-name associative recognition test

Joël Macoir1,2, Mariane Landry2,3,4, Carol Hudon3,4

  • 1Faculté de médecine, École des Sciences de la réadaptation, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.

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