Functional Connectivity and Predictors of Affective Aprosodia Intervention in Subacute Right Hemisphere Stroke

Inclusion Criteria: * Ischemic stroke to the right cerebral hemisphere * No history of other significant neurological disease or injury affecting the brain (excluding prior lacunar stroke, asymptomatic stroke, or TIA) * Proficient speaker of English prior to stroke per self-report * Capable of providing informed consent or indicating another to provide informed consent * Ages 18-89 * Demonstration of receptive and/or expressive aprosodia on standardized measures of aprosodia * Does not have severe cognitive impairment (MoCA \> 9) * Is not severely depressed (PHQ-9 \< 20) * Does not have more than mild motor speech impairment (ASRS \< 16 and Dysarthria severity \< 3) * Normal or corrected-to-normal hearing and vision via screening tasks and self-report * Medically stable * Not taking any medications that may interfere with prosody processing * Participation in speech therapy not targeting aprosodia Exclusion Criteria: * Ischemic stroke outside the right hemisphere or primary hemorrhagic stroke in the right hemisphere * History of symptomatic stroke or significant neurological disease or injury affecting the brain * No proficiency in English based on self-report * Unable to provide informed consent or to indicate another to provide informed consent * Children \< 18 and adults 90+ years * No demonstration of expressive or receptive aprosodia * Severe cognitive-linguistic impairment (MoCA \< 16) * Severe depression (PHQ-9 \> 19) * More than mild motor speech impairment (ASRS \…