Distinct Contributions of Working Memory and Attentional Control to Sentence Comprehension in Noise in Persons With Stroke

Conclusions The results from this study indicate that background noise impacts sentence comprehension abilities poststroke and that these difficulties may arise due to deficits in the cognitive resources supporting sentence comprehension and not other factors such as age or hearing. These findings also highlight a relationship between working memory abilities and sentence comprehension in background noise. We further suggest that attentional control abilities contribute to sentence comprehension by supporting the additional demands associated with informational masking. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.14984511.PMID:34284642 | DOI:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00694
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research