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Douglas, Jacinta M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: This study was designed to explore the behavioral nature of pragmatic impairment following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to evaluate the contribution of executive skills to the experience of pragmatic difficulties after TBI. Method: Participants were grouped into 43 TBI dyads (TBI adults and close relatives) and 43 control…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Verbal Learning, Brain, Language Processing
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Majerus, Steve; Van der Linden; Martial; Mulder, Ludivine; Meulemans, Thierry; Peters, Frederic – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The nonword phonotactic frequency effect in verbal short-term memory (STM) is characterized by superior recall for nonwords containing familiar as opposed to less familiar phoneme associations. This effect is supposed to reflect the intervention of phonological long-term memory (LTM) in STM. However the lexical or sublexical nature of this LTM…
Descriptors: Phonology, Long Term Memory, Short Term Memory, Language Processing