Journal article
Phonological memory and vocabulary learning in children with focal lesions
Brain and language, Vol.87(2), pp.241-252
2003
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00094-4
PMCID: PMC4110896
PMID: 14585293
Abstract
Eleven children with early focal lesions were compared with 70 age-matched controls to assess their performance in repeating non-words, in learning new words, and in immediate serial recall, a triad of abilities that are believed to share a dependence on serial ordering mechanisms (e.g.,
Baddeley, Gathercole, & Papagno, 1998;
Gupta, in press-a). Results for the experimental group were also compared with other assessments previously reported for the same children by
MacWhinney, Feldman, Sacco, and Valdés-Pérez (2000). The children with brain injury showed substantial impairment relative to controls in the experimental tasks, in contrast with relatively unimpaired performance on measures of vocabulary and non-verbal intelligence. The relationships between word learning, non-word repetition, and immediate serial recall were similar to those observed in several other populations. These results support previous reports that there are persistent processing impairments following early brain injury, despite developmental plasticity. They also suggest that word learning, non-word repetition, and immediate serial recall may be relatively demanding tasks, and that their relationship is a fundamental aspect of the cognitive system.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Phonological memory and vocabulary learning in children with focal lesions
- Creators
- Prahlad Gupta - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USABrian MacWhinney - Department of psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USAHeidi M Feldman - Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USAKelley Sacco - Department of psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Brain and language, Vol.87(2), pp.241-252
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00094-4
- PMID
- 14585293
- PMCID
- PMC4110896
- NLM abbreviation
- Brain Lang
- ISSN
- 0093-934X
- eISSN
- 1090-2155
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2003
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213411102771
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