Verbal memory and sentence comprehension in aphasia: A case series

• Main Authors: Boulouis, G. (Author), Druks, J. (Author), Evdokimidis, I. (Author), Fugard, A.J.B (Author), Kasselimis, D. (Author), Potagas, C. (Author), Van de Koot, H. (Author), Varkanitsa, M. (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2019
• Subjects: adult; Adult; amnesia; aphasia; Aphasia; Article; Boston naming test; case report; clinical article; complication; comprehension; Comprehension; controlled study; human; Humans; image processing; language; linguistics; Linguistics; male; Male; memory; memory assessment; memory disorder; Memory Disorders; Memory, Short-Term; middle aged; Middle Aged; neuroimaging; neuropsychological test; Neuropsychological Tests; neuropsychology; psychology; sentence comprehension; short term memory; stroke; verbal memory; working memory
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 This case series explores the relationship between verbal memory capacity and sentence comprehension in four patients with aphasia. Two sentence comprehension tasks showed that two patients, P1 and P2, had impaired syntactic comprehension, whereas P3 and P4’s sentence comprehension was intact. The memory assessment tasks showed that P1 and P2 had severely impaired short-term memory, whereas P3 and P4 performed within the normal range in the short-term memory tasks. This finding suggests an association between short-term memory deficit and sentence comprehension difficulties. P1 and P3 exhibited impaired comparable working memory deficits, suggesting a dissociation between working memory and sentence comprehension. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.