Treatment of the Linguistic and Temporal Components of Lexical Activation to Improve Word Retrieval in Aphasia.

ABSTRACT: Current approaches to treatments for word processing impairments in aphasia emphasize two components to target, the linguistic content, semantic or phonological representations of words, and the processing component, access to and retrieval of those representations. In this study, we explore these two components of a treatment to improve lexical activation that supports access and retrieval of word representations. Five people with aphasia participated. The treatment task was repetition of concrete word pairs after a 5-s response delay which was intended to provide practice in maintaining activation of the words for that 5-s period before reproducing them. Two of the five participants demonstrated a difficulty in maintaining activation of single words in repetition, with accuracy decreasin

SUBMITTER: Martin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9397957 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature