Predictors of object naming in aphasia: does cognitive control mediate the effects of psycholinguistic variables?

• Published in: Aphasiology Vol. 36; no. 11; pp. 1275 - 1292
• Main Authors: Heikkola, Leena Maria, Kuzmina, Ekaterina, Jensen, Bård Uri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 02.11.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Age of acquisition; Aphasia; Attention; Attention task; Cognition; cognitive control; Handedness; Lexical access; Naming; psycholinguistic variables; Psycholinguistics; Russian language; Stroke; Word frequency

Previous studies have shown that age of acquisition affects language production in persons with aphasia (PWA), specifically, earlier-acquired words are better preserved compared to later-learned ones (for review, see Brysbaert & Ellis, 2016 ). Also, it has been argued that naming objects with lo...