Modality-specific sustained attention deficits in aphasia: task performance and lesion analysis.

ABSTRACT: People with aphasia experience cognitive deficits in addition to their well-documented language impairments, with attention being a frequently affected domain. While numerous studies highlight the impact of attention deficits on language abilities in people with aphasia, research examining the neural correlates of these deficits and the influence of stimulus modality on attention performance remains limited. In this cross-sectional study, in Experiment 1, we investigated sustained attention deficits in people with aphasia using four matched tasks that varied by modality (visual versus auditory) and linguistic content (verbal versus non-verbal). In Experiment 2, we further explored whether the neural resources supporting sustained attention differ by modality. Participants included 56 peopl

SUBMITTER: Kuptsova SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12715772 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature