Verbal working memory and its relationship to sentence-level reading and listening comprehension in persons with aphasia

Aphasiology

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1040-1052

  Sung, Jee Eun ^a   McNeil, Malcolm R ^a   Pratt, Sheila R ^a   Dickey, Michael Walsh ^a   Hula, William D ^a   Szuminsky, Neil J ^a   Doyle, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Aphasia severity; Sentence comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549133461     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030802592884     Document Type: Article

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