Language Processing and TMS

Eligibility Criteria

• * Diagnosed with left hemisphere stroke
• * Consent date \>= 1 month after stroke onset
• * Right-handed
• * Fluent in English
• * 18 years of age or older
• * 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
• 1. cardiac stimulators or pacemakers or intracardiac lines
• 2. neurostimulators
• 3. medication infusion device
• 4. any other implants near the scalp (e.g., cochlear implants) or in the eye
• 5. 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