A study by Dr. Lilla Zakariás and her research team was published in a special issue of Cortex titled “Language Disorders in Understudied Languages.” The title of the paper is Language recovery in Hungarian speakers with aphasia: Roles of phonology and intraindividual variability".

During the study, researchers followed individuals with post-stroke aphasia for more than a year to explore the cognitive and linguistic factors influencing language recovery. The results showed that, in addition to initial aphasia severity, the ability to process phonology plays a significant role in the extent of language recovery.

This study is the first Hungarian longitudinal study among individuals with aphasia, as well as the first to examine the role of intra-individual variability in post-stroke language recovery. The results also highlight that a detailed examination of phonological processes may be of paramount importance not only for diagnosis but also for prognosis.

Cortex is a leading international scientific journal in the fields of neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychology, ranked in the first quartile (Q1). The study is freely available at this link.