Language Processing and TMS

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnosed with left hemisphere stroke
• Consent date >= 1 month after stroke onset
• Right-handed
• Fluent in English
• 18 years of age or older

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe cognitive, auditory or visual impairments that would preclude cognitive and language testing
• Non-decisional per decisionality questionnaire or other clinical assessment
• Presence of major untreated or unstable psychiatric disease (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disease)
• A chronic medical condition that is not treated or is unstable
• Presence of

• cardiac stimulators or pacemakers or intracardiac lines
• neurostimulators
• medication infusion device
• any other implants near the scalp (e.g., cochlear implants) or in the eye
• metal in the body
• Pregnancy
• History of skull fractures, or skin diseases
• History of ongoing or unmanaged seizures or a family history of epilepsy
• Presence of factors that potentially decrease seizure thresholds
• On pro-convulsant medications
• Untreated Sleep deprivation or insomnia
• Ongoing alcoholism or illegal drug abuse (e.g., cocaine or MDMA users)
• History of dyslexia or other developmental learning disabilities