@article{ref1,
title="Reduced N400 semantic priming effects in adult survivors of paediatric and adolescent traumatic brain injury",
journal="Brain and language",
year="2012",
author="Knuepffer, C. and Murdoch, B. E. and Lloyd, D. and Lewis, F. M. and Hinchliffe, F. J.",
volume="123",
number="1",
pages="52-63",
abstract="The immediate and long-term neural correlates of linguistic processing deficits reported following paediatric and adolescent traumatic brain injury (TBI) are poorly understood. Therefore, the current research investigated event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited during a semantic picture-word priming experiment in two groups of highly functioning individuals matched for various demographic variables and behavioural language performance. Participants in the TBI group had a recorded history of paediatric or adolescent TBI involving injury mechanisms associated with diffuse white matter pathology, while participants in the control group never sustained any insult to the brain. A comparison of N400 Mean Amplitudes elicited during three experimental conditions with varying semantic relatedness between the prime and target stimuli (congruent, semantically related, unrelated) revealed a significantly smaller N400 response in the unrelated condition in the TBI group, indicating residual linguistic processing deviations when processing demands required the quick detection of a between-category (unrelated) violation of semantic expectancy. (Contains 2 tables and 4 figures.)<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-934X",
doi="10.1016/j.bandl.2012.06.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2012.06.009"
}