The relationship between working memory, processing speed, verbal comprehension and FAS performance following traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 709-719

  Bittner, Robyn M ^a   Crowe, Simon F ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Processing speed; Traumatic brain injury; Verbal comprehension; Verbal fluency; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34547541229     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050701468917     Document Type: Article

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