Story retelling and verbal working memory in people with aphasia

Verbal Memory and Working Memory Impairment in Healthy Siblings of Patients with Schizophrenia

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the verbal memory and working memory impairment in healthy siblings of patients with schizophrenia.  Methods: The purpose of this study was to compare cognitive deficits in siblings of the patients with schizophrenia and control group. A total of 35 unaffected siblings of patients with schizophrenia were selected from the relatives of the pat...

Working Memory and Aphasia

Aphasia is traditionally considered to be an acquired language impairment, due to a focal (usually left-lateralized) brain lesion. However, during the last decades, there has been mounting evidence that aphasic patients also demonstrate non-linguistic processing deficits. This paper is focused on the relationship between language and memory deficits. Throughout the history of aphasiology, many ...

Validity of an eye-tracking method to index working memory in people with and without aphasia

Background: Working memory (WM) is essential to auditory comprehension; thus understanding of the nature of WM is vital to research and clinical practice to support people with aphasia. A key challenge in assessing WM in people with aphasia is related to the myriad deficits prevalent in aphasia, including deficits in attention, hearing, vision, speech, and motor control of the limbs. Eye-tracki...

verbal memory and working memory impairment in healthy siblings of patients with schizophrenia

objective: this study aimed to investigate the verbal memory and working memory impairment in healthy siblings of patients with schizophrenia.  methods: the purpose of this study was to compare cognitive deficits in siblings of the patients with schizophrenia and control group. a total of 35 unaffected siblings of patients with schizophrenia were selected from the relatives of the patients refe...

The Nature of Working Memory in Aphasia