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Cognitive deficits can be present in people with aphasia and may affect their language abilities. Results from neuroimaging research indicated that activation of the brain regions responsible for executive functions in the general domain is correlated with the recovery in language performance of people with aphasia. Our aim was to characterize the executive function profiles of people with Broca's aphasia. We examined 30 people with Broca's aphasia and 30 healthy persons using Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) and Delis-Kaplan executive function system (D-KEFS). The Trial making, Design fluency, Sorting, Tower, and Proverb subtests of D-KEFS were used. These tests required problem-solving, creativity, inhibition, concept-formation, cognitive shifting, spatial planning, rule learning, denotative, connotative, and establishing and maintaining cognitive set. There was a significant difference between people with aphasia and healthy persons and people with aphasia performed lower on all of the tests. In some executive functions, they even experienced more difficulty. It can be concluded there is a strong correlation between Broca's aphasia and executive functions.

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