Citation

Laures JS. Brain Lang. 2005; 95(2): 353-357.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Academic Press)

DOI

10.1016/j.bandl.2005.01.011

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Research indicates that attentional deficits exist in aphasic individuals. However, relatively little is known about auditory vigilance performance in individuals with aphasia. The current study explores reaction time (RT) and accuracy in 10 aphasic participants and 10 nonbrain-damaged controls during linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory vigilance tasks.

FINDINGS indicate that the aphasic group was less accurate during both tasks than the control group, but was not slower in their accurate responses. Further examination of the data revealed variability in the aphasic participants' RT contributing to the lower accuracy scores.

Language: en