Barnes M A, Dennis M
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Brain Lang. 2001 Mar;76(3):253-65. doi: 10.1006/brln.2000.2385.
Inferencing was studied with a story comprehension task that required inferences to be made from a controlled knowledge base. Despite similar rates of knowledge base acquisition, knowledge base retention, and speeded access to the knowledge base across groups, the 18 children with severe head injury had lower rates of inferencing than the 15 children with mild head injury or the 18 age-matched controls. Results suggest that cognitive functions such as working memory and metacognitive skill that are disrupted by severe head injury may also play a role in some of the text- and discourse-level deficits commonly reported in these children, notably those involving inferencing.
通过一个故事理解任务来研究推理，该任务要求从一个可控的知识库中进行推理。尽管不同组之间在知识库获取率、知识库保留率以及对知识库的快速访问方面相似，但18名重度头部受伤儿童的推理率低于15名轻度头部受伤儿童或18名年龄匹配的对照组。结果表明，诸如工作记忆和元认知技能等认知功能会因重度头部受伤而受到干扰，这些功能可能在这些儿童中常见的一些文本和语篇层面的缺陷中也起作用，尤其是那些涉及推理的缺陷。
