Contribution of Working Memory and Inferencing to Narrative Discourse Comprehension and Production in Traumatic Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The goal of this study was to identify some potential key cognitive and communicative processes underlying narrative discourse ability following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Specifically, this study (a) investigated the contribution of working memory (WM) and inferencing to narrative discourse comprehension and production; (b) tested key assumptions posited by the Structure Building Framework (SBF), a discourse model; and (c) evaluated the potential for inferencing to contribute to discourse ability beyond a shared variance with WM.

Method

Twenty-one individuals with TBI completed six tasks yielding seven measures: verbal and nonverbal WM updating (WMU-V and WMU-NV, respectively), predictive inferencing, the Discourse Comprehension Test (DCT), a picture story compre

SUBMITTER: Le K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10468118 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature