摘要：Cognitive impairments have been proposed to subtend the language impairment of in persons with aphasia (PWA)and there is considerable evidence that attentional deficits are impaired in these individuals. Recent research in“ executive attention” has brought a focus to this discussion. For example, Lim, et al (2012) recently explored goalmaintenance and conflict resolution deficits on a lexical-semantic task in PWA, using a picture-word interferencetask.
