Balancing task sensitivity with reliability for multimodal language assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Intraoperative tasks for awake language mapping are typically selected based on the language tracts that will likely be encountered during tumor resection. However, diminished attention and arousal secondary to perioperative sedatives may reduce a task's usefulness for identifying eloquent cortex. For instance, accuracy in performing select language tasks may be high preoperatively but decline in the operating room. In the present study, the authors sought to identify language tasks that can be performed with high accuracy in both situational contexts so the neurosurgical team can be confident that speech errors committed during awake language mapping result from direct cortical stimulation to eloquent cortex, rather than from poor performance in general.

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SUBMITTER: Aabedi AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10404475 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature