Effects of visual‐manual tracking under dual‐task conditions on auditory language comprehension and story retelling in persons with aphasiaFootnote

The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments of two anonymous reviewers, the volume editor, programming support of Neil Szuminsky, and the funding of this project by the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, project #C3159R.

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