@article{ref1,
title="Impaired discourse gist and working memory in children after brain injury",
journal="Brain and language",
year="2006",
author="Chapman, Sandra B. and Gamino, Jacquelyn F. and Cook, Lori G. and Hanten, Gerri and Li, Xiansheng and Levin, Harvey S.",
volume="97",
number="2",
pages="178-188",
abstract="Emerging evidence suggests that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood may disrupt the ability to abstract the central meaning or gist-based memory from connected language (discourse). The current study adopts a novel approach to elucidate the role of immediate and working memory processes in producing a cohesive and coherent gist-based text in the form of a summary in children with mild and severe TBI as compared to typically developing children, ages 8-14 years at test. Both TBI groups showed decreased performance on a summary production task as well as retrieval of specific content from a long narrative. Working memory on n-back tasks was also impaired in children with severe TBI, whereas immediate memory performance for recall of a simple word list in both TBI groups was comparable to controls. Interestingly, working memory, but not simple immediate memory for a word list, was significantly correlated with summarization ability and ability to recall discourse content.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-934X",
doi="10.1016/j.bandl.2005.10.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2005.10.002"
}