Verbal working memory and its relationship to sentence‐level reading and listening comprehension in persons with aphasiaFootnote

This research was supported by the VA Research & Development Grant C4074X and in part by VA Research & Development Grant C3318R. The authors are grateful to the audience at the 38th annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, to all of the participants in the study, and to Aelee Kim, MaryBeth Ventura, Tepanta Fossett, and Wiltrud Fassbinder for their help with various phases of the study.

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