Language | US English |
Inclusion criteria | Residual phonologic retrieval deficit; intact semantic processing |
Number of individuals with aphasia | 21 |
Number of control participants | 0 |
Were any of the participants included in any previous studies? | No |
Is age reported for patients and controls, and matched? | Yes (mean 56.4 ± 12.5 years, range 30-80 years) |
Is sex reported for patients and controls, and matched? | Yes (males: 11; females: 10) |
Is handedness reported for patients and controls, and matched? | Yes (right: 21; left: 0) |
Is time post stroke onset reported and appropriate to the study design? | Yes (mean 1134 ± 1491 days, range 180-6732 days) |
To what extent is the nature of aphasia characterized? | Not at all |
Language evaluation | Pseudoword rhyme matching, semantic picture matching (similar to PPT-P), picture naming |
Aphasia severity | Not stated |
Aphasia type | Not stated |
First stroke only? | Not stated |
Stroke type | Ischemic only |
To what extent is the lesion distribution characterized? | Lesion overlay |
Lesion extent | Mean 73.4 ± 58.6 cc, range 6.7-227.0 cc |
Lesion location | 17 L MCA, 2 combined L MCA/ACA, combined 2 L MCA/PCA |
Participants notes | — |
Modality | fMRI |
Is the study cross-sectional or longitudinal? | Cross-sectional |
If longitudinal, at what time point(s) were imaging data acquired? | — |
If longitudinal, was there any intervention between the time points? | — |
Is the scanner described? | Yes (GE Excite 3 Tesla) |
Is the timing of stimulus presentation and image acquisition clearly described and appropriate? | No (precise timing of stimuli not stated; total images acquired not stated) |
Design type | Event-related |
Total images acquired | not stated |
Are the imaging acquisition parameters, including coverage, adequately described and appropriate? | Yes (whole brain) |
Is preprocessing and intrasubject coregistration adequately described and appropriate? | Yes |
Is first level model fitting adequately described and appropriate? | Yes |
Is intersubject normalization adequately described and appropriate? | Yes |
Imaging notes | — |
Language condition | Reading nouns aloud (correct trials) |
Control condition | Reading nouns aloud (incorrect trials) |
Are the conditions matched for visual demands? | Yes |
Are the conditions matched for auditory demands? | Yes |
Are the conditions matched for motor demands? | Yes |
Are the conditions matched for cognitive/executive demands? | Yes |
Is accuracy matched between the language and control tasks for all relevant groups? | No, by design |
Is reaction time matched between the language and control tasks for all relevant groups? | Yes, matched |
Behavioral data notes | — |
Are control data reported in this paper or another that is referenced? | N/A |
Does the contrast selectively activate plausible relevant language regions in the control group? | N/A |
Are activations lateralized in the control data? | N/A |
Control activation notes | Control data N/A because controls do not typically make errors |
Contrast notes | — |
First level contrast | Reading nouns aloud (correct trials) vs reading nouns aloud (incorrect trials) |
Analysis class | Cross-sectional performance-defined conditions |
Group(s) | Aphasia |
Covariate | — |
Is the second level contrast valid in terms of the group(s), time point(s), and measures involved? | Yes |
Is accuracy matched across the second level contrast? | No, by design |
Is reaction time matched across the second level contrast? | Yes, matched |
Behavioral data notes | — |
Type of analysis | Voxelwise |
Search volume | Whole brain |
Correction for multiple comparisons | Clusterwise correction based on 3dClustSim |
Software | AFNI |
Voxelwise p | .01 |
Cluster extent | 1.609 cc |
Statistical details | Regarding correction for multiple comparisons, addition of monoexponential function reduces but does not eliminate inflation of p values (Cox et al., 2017) |
Findings | ↑ L angular gyrus ↓ L ventral precentral/inferior frontal junction ↓ L SMA/medial prefrontal ↓ R insula ↓ R ventral precentral/inferior frontal junction ↓ R SMA/medial prefrontal |
Findings notes | Positive region (L AG) was part of the semantic network, while many negative regions were positively modulated by reaction time in the aphasia group |