Running Head: PERILESIONAL ACTIVITY IN APHASIA 1 Title: Testing the perilesional neuroplastic recruitment hypothesis in aphasia Running head: Perilesional activity in aphasia Authors Andrew T. DeMarco, PhD, CCC-SLP 1,2 Candace M. van der Stelt, MS, CCC-SLP 2 Sachi Paul, BA 2 Elizabeth Dvorak, MS 2 Elizabeth Lacey, PhD 2,3 Sarah Snider, MS, CCC-SLP 2 Peter E. Turkeltaub, MD, PhD 1,2,3,* Affiliations 1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, United States 2 Department of Neurology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, United States 3 MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC, 20010, United States * Corresponding author Corresponding author contact information Peter E Turkeltaub Email: turkeltp@georgetown.edu Phone: 202-784-1764 Number of characters in title: 71 Number of characters in running head: 32 Number of words in the Abstract: 250 Number of words in Introduction: 489 Number of words in Discussion: 1057 Number of words in body of manuscript (not including references): 3696 Number of figures: 5 Number of color figures: 5 Number of tables: 5 . CC-BY-NC 4.0 International license available under a (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted August 9, 2021. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.06.455431 doi: bioRxiv preprint