TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Impaired discourse gist and working memory in children after brain injury
JO  - Brain and language
A1  - Chapman, Sandra B.
A1  - Gamino, Jacquelyn F.
A1  - Cook, Lori G.
A1  - Hanten, Gerri
A1  - Li, Xiansheng
A1  - Levin, Harvey S.
SP  - 178
EP  - 188
VL  - 97
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-934X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2005.10.002
ID  - ref1
ER  -