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S W Kirkpatrick1, P S Campbell, R E Wharry
1University of Alabama, Huntsville 35899.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Reanalysis of testosterone values published in 1993 gave a significantly higher mean and standard deviation for 15 learning-disabled children scoring P > V than those for 10 scoring V > P but not for a matched nonlearning-disabled group. Replication with larger samples would allow a test of hemispheric integration.
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