Verbal selective learning after traumatic brain injury in children
Verbal selective learning after traumatic brain injury in children
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DOI:
10.1002/ana.20298
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发表时间:
2004-12-01
影响因子:
11.2
通讯作者:
Levin, HS
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作者:
Hanten, G;Chapman, SB;Levin, HS
Selective learning (SL), the ability to select items to learn from among other items, engages cognitive control, which is purportedly mediated by the frontal cortex and its circuitry. Using incentive-based auditory word recall and expository discourse tasks, we studied the efficiency of SL in children ages, 6 to 16 years who had sustained severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) at least 1 year earlier. We hypothesized that SL would be compromised by severe TBI. Results indicated that children with severe TBI performed significantly worse than age-matched typically developing children on word- and discourse-level measures of SL efficiency with no significant group differences in number of items recalled from auditory word lists or declarative facts. We conclude that severe TBI disrupts incentive-based cognitive control processes, possibly due to involvement of frontal neural networks.