Conceptualising and measuring working memory and its relationship to aphasia

Aphasiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 258-278

  Wright, Heather Harris ^a   Fergadiotis, Gerasimos ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Attention; Language processing; Memory

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COMPLEX SPAN TASK; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; HABITUATION; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; N BACK TASK; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; ORIENTATION; PHONETICS; PORCH INDEX OF COMMUNICATIVE ABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; RAVEN ADVANCED PROGRESSIVE MATRIX TEST; READING; READING COMPREHENSION BATTERY FOR APHASIA; REVIEW; REVISED TOKEN TEST; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SUBJECTRELATIVE, OBJECT-RELATIVE, ACTIVE, PASSIVE TEST OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84858273201     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2011.604304     Document Type: Review

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