Lesioned Multimodal Language Models Reproduce Aphasic Picture-Naming Patterns

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arXiv:2607.11621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 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 perturbations to a multimodal language model can reproduce different types of errors in picture naming, and (2) whether the framework can reproduce the complete error profi