Mindfulness Meditation Effects on Attention in Aphasia

This dataset contains pre- and post-training measures of attention and verbal language from five people with chronic aphasia who completed a 9-week meditation intervention. It assesses whether intensive meditation training can enhance attention processes in this population and potentially generalize to verbal-language skills.

Use Cases

• Analyze attention task performance changes following meditation training
• Explore correlations between non-verbal attention gains and verbal-language outcomes
• Benchmark cognitive intervention effects in a small chronic aphasia sample

Strengths

• Longitudinal design with repeated measures
• Includes both visual and auditory attention tasks alongside verbal working memory and word retrieval assessments
• Focuses on a clinical population with chronic deficits

Limitations

• Very small sample size (n=5) limits statistical power
• No control group
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred