Multisensory cueing facilitates naming in aphasia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Impaired naming is a ubiquitous symptom in all types of aphasia, which often adversely impacts independence, quality of life, and recovery of affected individuals. Previous research has demonstrated that naming can be facilitated by phonological and semantic cueing strategies that are largely incorporated into the treatment of anomic disturbances. Beneficial effects of cueing, whereby naming becomes faster and more accurate, are often attributed to the priming mechanisms occurring within the distributed language network.

Objective

We proposed and explored two novel cueing techniques: (1) Silent Visuomotor Cues (SVC), which provided articulatory information of target words presented in the form of silent videos, and (2) Semantic Auditory Cues (SAC), which consisted

SUBMITTER: Grechuta K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487671 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature