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Age Related Differences in Response to Music-Evoked Emotion Among Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Heaton, P. Age Related Differences in Response to Music-Evoked Emotion Among Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 46, 1490–1491 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2671-7

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