The treatment of an auditory working memory deficit and the implications for sentence comprehension abilities in mild "receptive" aphasia

Aphasiology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 723-750

  Francis, Dawn R ^a   Clark, Nina ^b   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b South Birmingham Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN;

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; SEIZURE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH THERAPY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0041560967     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030344000201     Document Type: Article

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