Communication Sciences and Disorders 4411A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Cognitive Deficit, Aphasia, Explicit Memory
14 Apr 2019
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Understanding the relationship between communicating and thinking laura murray. Her research studied: relationships between cognitive problems and the language problems that are common in aphasia. Fasciculus: working memory and syntactic processing/sentence processing, ex. Acteylcholine: declarative memory and lexical semantic processing, therefore, brain damage that disrupts language structures/circuits likely to negatively affect some cognitive functions and vice versa. Deficits possible in all cognitive domains: attention, memory, executive functions. Deficits observed on tasks with and without linguistic demands. Create none unique designs in a minute. Have to connect black dots and create patterns. Looks at if you can plan and create things. Gave it to left and right hemisphere lesions people. Found that: those with aphasia and right hemisphere lesions did more poorly then their age and education matched peers. In aphasia you can have problems in other cognitive abilities that don"t relate to language abilities.
