摘要：There is converging evidence that there are cognitive nonlinguistic deficits in aphasia and that thesecognitive nonlinguistic deficits tend to exacerbate the language impairment of persons with aphasia.For instance, concurrent memory load or on-going interference (even when it is non-linguistic innature) strongly affects accuracy and speed of linguistic processing in aphasia (Murray, 1999).Generally, the more attention is required to perform a language task, the harder it becomes forindividuals with aphasia (Hula & McNeil, 2008). Further, reduced memory capacity negativelyimpacts language comprehension in aphasia (Wright & Fergadiotos, 2012). Still much remainsunknown about joint impact of various cognitive mechanisms or their differential influence onlanguage processing depending on the type of aphasia. The goal of the present study was toinvestigate the simultaneous influence of different cognitive mechanisms (memory, attention, speedof processing) on auditory language comprehension in individuals with fluent and non-fluentaphasia.
