“…Finally, if disorders of language are associated with a diminishment of consciousness, they should also be correlated with 'nonverbal' abilities to the extent these are consciously mediated. Though controversial, such a relationship has been observed in aphasia for cognitive (Fonseca et al, 2019;Gonzalez et al, 2020;Schumacher et al, 2019;Wall et al, 2017;Yao et al, 2020)(though see) (Fedorenko and Varley, 2016;Varley, 2014;Woolgar et al, 2018) and meta-cognitive performance (Baldo et al, 2005;Hermer-Vazquez et al, 1999;Langland-Hassan et al, 2017). For example, people with aphasia are impaired in skills like drawing, block arrangement, and visual pattern completion (Gonzalez et al, 2020).…”