arxivcs.AIcs.CLcs.LG2026-07-13
Lesioned Multimodal Language Models Reproduce Aphasic Picture-Naming Patterns
Yong Yang, Xiang Guan, Sophie Arheix-Parras, Saeed Ahmadi, Roger Newman-Norlund, Leonardo Bonilha, et al.
Aphasia following stroke commonly produces systematic naming errors with characteristic profiles, but whether general-purpose language models not designed for clinical simulation can reproduce these patterns remains untested. We investigated (1) whether lesions or controlled pert…