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Key-DeLyria, Sarah E.; Rogalski, Yvonne; Bodner, Todd; Weichselbaum, Amanda – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) may experience chronic cognitive-linguistic impairments that are difficult to evaluate with existing measures. Garden path sentences are linguistically complex sentences that lead readers down a path to an incorrect interpretation. Previous research indicates many individuals, with or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Ambiguity (Semantics), Reading Comprehension, Head Injuries
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Key-DeLyria, Sarah E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Sentence processing can be affected following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to linguistic or cognitive deficits. Language-related event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly the P600, have not been described in individuals with TBI history. Method: Four young adults with a history of closed head injury participated. Two had severe…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments
Nippold, Marilyn A., Ed.; Scott, Cheryl M., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse--the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Intervention