Eye Movements of Persons with Aphasia During Connected-Text Reading.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Eye movements reflect the cognitive-linguistic processing of neurotypical readers. Numerous reading related eye movement measures are associated with language processing, including first fixation duration, gaze duration, number of fixations, word skipping, and regressions. Eye movements have also been used to examine reading in neuro-atypical populations including persons with aphasia (PWA).

Aims

This study aimed to determine whether eye movement measures obtained from connected text reading differ among persons with varying types of aphasia and neurotypical individuals, as well as whether eye movement measures are associated with language processing severity and reading comprehension ability in PWA.

Methods

Twenty-four PWA and twenty-four age-matched contr

SUBMITTER: Smith KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12333920 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature