Narrative Discourse Performance in Traumatic Brain Injury: Does Story Comprehension Predict Story Retelling?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Little is known about the relationship between discourse comprehension and production in traumatic brain injury (TBI), especially for spoken language. This study examined to what extent narrative discourse comprehension accounts for narrative discourse production outcomes (story grammar, story completeness). A secondary aim was to provisionally test an assumption of a discourse model, the structure building framework (SBF), that discourse comprehension and production share cognitive processes by investigating the strength of the relationship between them.

Method

Twenty-one individuals with TBI completed story comprehension and story retelling tasks. Discourse measures included the Discourse Comprehension Test, a picture story comprehension task, story grammar, and st

SUBMITTER: Le K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11305611 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature