To what extent does attention underlie language in aphasia?

@article{Villard2017ToWE,
  title={To what extent does attention underlie language in aphasia?},
  author={Sarah Villard and Swathi Kiran},
  journal={Aphasiology},
  year={2017},
  volume={31},
  pages={1226 - 1245}
}
ABSTRACT Background: It is well established that persons with aphasia (PWA) exhibit impaired performance on assessments not only of language function but also of cognitive skills, including attention processing. Attention is a particularly important cognitive skill to examine in aphasia because of its fundamental, domain-general nature, as well as the fact that a link between attention deficits and language deficits in this population has been proposed in previous work. Aims: We review and… Expand
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