Understanding text after severe closed-head injury: Assessing inferences and memory operations with a think-aloud procedure

Brain and Language

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 331-346

  Schmitter Edgecombe, Maureen ^a   Bales, James W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed head injury; Comprehension; Discourse; Inferences; Language; Memory; Protocol analysis; Think aloud; Traumatic brain injury; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; READING; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH;

EID: 23744463261     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.01.007     Document Type: Article

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