Yasuda K, Nakamura T, Beckman B
Department of Rehabilitation, Chiba Rosai Hospital, Ichihara-shi, Japan.
Brain Lang. 2000 Dec;75(3):399-415. doi: 10.1006/brln.2000.2377.
The present study investigated aphasic subjects' ability to comprehend and store serially presented discourse. Sixteen mild aphasic subjects, eight age-matched normals, and eight younger normals listened to four serially presented radio news stories and a single radio news story. Half of the aphasic subjects performed as well as age-matched normals in a single-news-story comprehension task. However, they demonstrated a drastic deterioration in performance when asked to listen to a series of four news stories. Age-matched normals, and aphasic subjects, to a lesser extent, showed an impairment in the comprehension and storage of the news story heard last in a series of four news stories. These results were discussed in terms of the comprehension and storage resources of working memory.
