Contributions of semantic and phonological working memory to narrative language independent of single word production: Evidence from acute stroke.

ABSTRACT: ABSTRACTNeuropsychological case studies have provided evidence that individuals with semantic, but not phonological, working memory (WM) deficits have difficulty producing phrases containing several content words. These findings supported the claim of a phrasal scope of planning at the grammatical formulation stage of production, where semantic WM supports the maintenance of lexical-semantic representations as they are inserted into slots in phrasal constituents. Recent narrative production results for individuals at the acute stage of stroke supported the role for semantic WM in phrasal elaboration while suggesting a role for phonological WM at a subsequent phonological encoding stage in supporting fluent, rapid speech. In the present study, we employed a larger participant sample

SUBMITTER: Zahn R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10712216 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature