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Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held jointly with Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 28, 1973. This research was supported by NSF Grant GS 35642 to the University of Chicago and by a grant from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry.
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Bock, R.D. Word and image: Sources of the verbal and spatial factors in mental test scores. Psychometrika 38, 437–457 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02291488
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