DMCN 12476
DMCN 12476
DMCN 12476
populations. They can, however, reassure us that the AIMS Serendipitously, their methodology is well described and
hasn’t changed and results from the AIMS should be uti- could be readily replicated with alternate populations, work
lized as they have been in the past. The authors stress that might contribute additional information on the big
appropriate caution in interpreting the AIMS related to questions of motor development.
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