Table 1.
Characteristics of participants with aphasia.
| P | Gender | Language | Age (years) | Handedness | Years postonset | Lesion | AQ | Language production characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Female | English | 60 | R | 3.5 | LH–MCA | — a | Word-finding difficulty, pauses and false starts, frequent semantic errors, and infrequent grammatical and phonological errors |
| 2 | Female | English | 52 | R | 2.0 | LH–MCA | 75.9 | Slowed production, frequent pauses, semantic and grammatical errors |
| 3 | Female | English | 38 | R | 7.0 | LH–MCA | 65.2 | Exclusive use of nouns in spontaneous speech. Slow multiword utterances, long pauses, and occasional morphological, semantic, and phonological errors |
| 4 | Female | Spanish | 53 | R | 1.5 | LH–MCA | 62.4 | Few function words and verbs; frequent perseveration, false starts, semantic and phonological errors |
Note. P = participant; R = right-handed; LH = left hemisphere; MCA = middle cerebral artery; AQ = aphasia quotient.
a
P1 received a score of 3 on the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) prior to participation in the study.