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 …

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 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 …

Validity of an eye-tracking method to index working memory in people with and without aphasia

MV Ivanova, B Hallowell - Aphasiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Working memory (WM) is essential to auditory comprehension; thus
understanding of the nature of WM is vital to research and clinical practice to support people …

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 …

Construct validity and reliability of working memory tasks for people with aphasia

G DeDe, M Ricca, J Knilans, B Trubl - Aphasiology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Although several studies have examined working memory in people with
aphasia, there is little information about the psychometric properties of tasks used to …

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 …

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 …

Conceptualising and measuring working memory and its relationship to aphasia

HH Wright, G Fergadiotis - Aphasiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background: General agreement exists in the literature that individuals with aphasia can
exhibit a working memory deficit that contributes to their language-processing impairments …

Working memory in aphasia: Peeling the onion

SC Christensen, HH Wright, I Ratiu - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2018 - Elsevier
Compared to neurologically healthy adults, persons with aphasia (PWA) demonstrate
impaired performance on working memory (WM) tasks. These deficits in WM are thought to …