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Hema, N.a, Maharunnisa. P. (1). Discourse and Working Memory in Conduction Aphasia-A case study. Journal of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, 37(1), 84-92. Retrieved from http://203.129.241.91/jaiish/index.php/aiish/article/view/1131
Abstract
This case study describes the language processing diculties exhibited by the case with conduction aphasia with respect to the decits in working memory capacity and discourse ability. The case presented here is the 33-year old right-handed female, who started exhibiting aphasic features following craniotomy for the anaplastic oligodendroglioma. In this case study, the medical report is presented rst followed by the description of cognitive-linguistic decits. The tasks used in this case study were narrative discourse task and working memory tasks such as, forward span task, backward span task and N-back tasks.
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91
JAIISH, Vol 37, 84-92 Hema & Maharunnisa (2018)
tion defect in conduction aphasia: Mnestic or
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impairment of auditory verbal short-term mem-
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& Shapiro, L. P. (2007). Processing distinct lin-
guistic information types in working memory in
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Wright, H. H., Newho , M., Downey, R., & Auster-
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memory in aphasia. Journal of International
Neuropsychological Society, 9 (2), 302.
Youse, K. M., & Coelho, C. A. (2005). Working
memory and discourse production abilities fol-
lowing closed-head injury. Brain Injury, 19 (12),
1001-1009.
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ory and language impairment: The importance
of item and serial order information. Aphasiol-
ogy, 26 (3-4), 355-382.
Baddeley, A. (2000). The episodic bu er: a new com-
ponent of working memory? Trends in Cogni-
tive Sciences, 4 (11), 417-423.
Baddeley, A. (2003). Working memory: looking back
and looking forward. Nature Reviews Neuro-
science, 4 (10), 829.
Baddeley, A. D., & Hitch, G. (1974). Working mem-
ory. In Psychology of learning and motivation
(Vol. 8, pp. 47-89). Academic press.
Benson, D. F., Sheremata, W. A., Bouchard, R.,
Segarra, J. M., Price, D., & Geschwind, N.
(1973). Conduction aphasia: a clinicopatholog-
ical study. Archives of Neurology, 28 (5), 339-
346.
Caspari, I., Parkinson, S. R., LaPointe, L. L., &
Katz, R. C. (1998). Working memory and apha-
sia. Brain and cognition, 37 (2), 205-223.
Christensen, S. C., & Wright, H. H. (2010). Ver-
bal and non-verbal working memory in aphasia:
What three n-back tasks reveal. Aphasiology,
24 (6-8), 752-762.
Christiansen, J. A. (1995). Coherence violations
and propositional usage in the narratives of
u-
ent aphasics. Brain and Language, 51 (2), 291-
317.
Daneman, M., & Carpenter, P. A. (1980). Individ-
ual di erences in working memory and reading.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behav-
ior, 19 (4), 450-466.
Ewing-Cobbs, L., Brookshire, B., Scott, M. A., &
Fletcher, J. M. (1998). Children's narratives fol-
lowing traumatic brain injury: Linguistic struc-
ture, cohesion, and thematic recall. Brain and
Language, 61 (3), 395-419.
Gvion, A., & Friedmann, N. (2012). Does phonologi-
cal working memory impairment a ect sentence
comprehension? A study of conduction aphasia.
Aphasiology, 26 (3-4), 494-535.
Hema, N., & Shyamala, K. C. (2013). Macrolin-
guistic Analysis of Discourse in TBI: Right Vs
Left Hemisphere Injury. Journal of the All In-
dia Institute of Speech and Hearing, 32, 139-
153.
Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (1992). A capac-
ity theory of comprehension: individual di er-
ences in working memory. Psychological Review,
99 (1), 122.
Kumar, A. U., & Sandeep, M. (2012). Development
and Test Trial of Computer Based Auditory-
Cognitive Training Module for Individuals with
Cochlear Hearing Loss. (Report No. 113).
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, In-
dia.
Lezak, M. D. (1995). Neuropsychological Assess-
ment, 3rd edR Oxford Univ. Press, New York,
544-546.
Luria, A. R., Sokolov, E. N., & Klimkowski, M.
(1967). Towards a neurodynamic analysis of
memory disturbances with lesions of the left
temporal lobe. Neuropsychologia, 5 (1), 1-
11.
Martin, R. C. (1987). Articulatory and phonological
de cits in short-term memory and their relation
to syntactic processing. Brain and Language,
32 (1), 159-192.
Mayer, J. F., & Murray, L. L. (2012). Measur-
ing working memory de cits in aphasia. Jour-
nal of Communication Disorders, 45 (5), 325-
339.
McCabe, A., & Peterson, C. (1991). Developing
narrative structure (1st ed.). NJ: Psychology
Press.
Ostrin, R. K., & Schwartz, M. F. (1986). Recon-
structing from a degraded trace: A study of
sentence repetition in agrammatism. Brain and
Language, 28 (2), 328-345.
Penn, C., Frankel, T., Watermeyer, J., & Russell,
N. (2010). Executive function and conversa-
tional strategies in bilingual aphasia. Aphasi-
ology, 24 (2), 288-308.
Ramsberger, G. (2005). Achieving conversational
success in aphasia by focusing on non-linguistic
cognitive skills: A potentially promising new
approach. Aphasiology, 19 (10-11), 1066-
1073.
Shyamala, K. C. & Ravikumar (2008). Norma-
tive and Clinical Data on the Kannada Version
of Western Aphasia Battery (WAB-K). Lan-
guage in India, 8, 6 June. Retrieved from
http://www.languageinindia.com
Strub, R. L., & Gardner, H. (1974). The repeti-
91
JAIISH, Vol 37, 84-92 Hema & Maharunnisa (2018)
tion defect in conduction aphasia: Mnestic or
linguistic?. Brain and Language, 1 (3), 241-
255.
Warrington, E. K., Logue, V., & Pratt, R. T. C.
(1971). The anatomical localisation of selective
impairment of auditory verbal short-term mem-
ory. Neuropsychologia, 9 (4), 377-387.
Wright, H. H., & Shisler, R. J. (2005). Working
memory in aphasia. American journal of speech-
language pathology.
Wright, H. H., Downey, R. A., Gravier, M., Love, T.,
& Shapiro, L. P. (2007). Processing distinct lin-
guistic information types in working memory in
aphasia. Aphasiology, 21 (6-8), 802-813.
Wright, H. H., Newho , M., Downey, R., & Auster-
mann, S. (2003). Additional data on working
memory in aphasia. Journal of International
Neuropsychological Society, 9 (2), 302.
Youse, K. M., & Coelho, C. A. (2005). Working
memory and discourse production abilities fol-
lowing closed-head injury. Brain Injury, 19 (12),
1001-1009.