Working memory and discourse production in people with aphasia

D Cahana-Amitay, T Jenkins - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2018 - Elsevier
This study explored the relationship between Working Memory (WM) and discourse
production in people with aphasia, based on data from the AphasiaBank. The dataset …

Working memory in aphasia: Considering discourse processing and treatment implications

A Henderson, H Kim, S Kintz, N Frisco… - Seminars in speech …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
Evidence suggests that persons with aphasia (PWAs) present with working memory
impairments that affect a variety of language tasks. Most of these studies have focused on …

Verbal working memory and its relationship to sentence‐level reading and listening comprehension in persons with aphasia

JE Sung, MR McNeil, SR Pratt, MW Dickey, WD Hula… - Aphasiology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Working memory (WM) has gained recent attention as a cognitive construct that
may account for language comprehension deficits in persons with aphasia (PWA)(Caspari …

The contribution of working memory to language comprehension: Differential effect of aphasia type

MV Ivanova, OV Dragoy, SV Kuptsova, AS Ulicheva… - Aphasiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Experimental studies of short-term memory and working memory (WM) in
aphasia fail to discriminate cognitive impairments of different aphasia types—non-fluent …

A comparison of two working memory tasks in aphasia

MV Ivanova, SV Kuptsova, NF Dronkers - Aphasiology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Overall, there is growing consensus that working memory (WM) should be
routinely assessed in individuals with aphasia as it can contribute significantly to their level …

Processing distinct linguistic information types in working memory in aphasia

HH Wright, RA Downey, M Gravier, T Love… - Aphasiology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Recent investigations have suggested that adults with aphasia present with a
working memory deficit that may contribute to their language‐processing difficulties. Working …

Measuring working memory deficits in aphasia

JF Mayer, LL Murray - Journal of communication disorders, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Many adults with aphasia demonstrate concomitant deficits in working memory
(WM), but such deficits are difficult to quantify because of a lack of validated measures as …

A new modified listening span task to enhance validity of working memory assessment for people with and without aphasia

MV Ivanova, B Hallowell - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2014 - Elsevier
Deficits in working memory (WM) are an important subset of cognitive processing deficits
associated with aphasia. However, there are serious limitations to research on WM in …

Working memory in aphasia

HH Wright, RJ Shisler - 2005 - ASHA
Recently, researchers have suggested that deficits in working memory capacity contribute to
language-processing difficulties observed in individuals with aphasia (eg, I. Caspari, S …

Verbal and non-verbal working memory in aphasia: What three n-back tasks reveal

SC Christensen, HH Wright - Aphasiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Researchers have found that many individuals with aphasia (IWA) present with
cognitive deficits that may impact their communication, and perhaps underlie their language …