Working Memory And Inhibition In People With Broca's Aphasia
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Language and cognitive functioning allow human beings to interact and adapt to the demands of the world around them; in this sense, people with Broca's aphasia (PWBA) present a deficit which can seriously hamper their social autonomy. The interest of the present study is to evaluate cognitive functions relating to working memory (WM), and inhibition in 15 people with Broca's aphasia (PWBA group), in comparison with 15 healthy people (healthy group), which have the same characteristics. The analysis of intergroup differences shows that there is indeed a deficit in these functions in the PWBA group. The decline in the ability to maintain information at the WM level seems to explain the difficulties observed for the inhibition of distractors and attentional control. Age in the PWBA group is an aggravating factor. The speech therapy treatment provided to PWBA must take into consideration the deficits of these functions, which are strongly involved in language, in order to guarantee good language recovery.
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