Evaluating the Contribution of Executive Functions to Language Tasks in Cognitively Demanding Contexts.

Conclusions Our findings indicate that inhibition plays a role in completing tasks that require lexical and/or semantic processing in cognitively demanding conditions. Attention switching was not a significant predictor for any task. These results are an important step toward creating methods to evaluate executive skills in the context of language production. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.9765107. PMID: 31518509 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Tags: Am J Speech Lang Pathol Source Type: research