摘要:We investigated the hypothesis that executive control is critically involved in some aspects of language processing in individuals with Broca9s aphasia. Specifically, we focused on distractor interference and spatial negative priming (NP) effects, which involve the ability to inhibit distracting information within the same probe trial and the ability to inhibit irrelevant information that exerts its effect from one (prime) trial to the next (probe) trial, respectively. We replicated a spatial NP experiment (Treccani et al. 2009) by assessing the distractor and the NP effect for eight Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Broca aphasia and a group of eighteen age- and education-matched language-unimpaired controls.