TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Changes in discourse structure over time following traumatic brain injury
JO  - Neuropsychologia
A1  - Lindsey, André
A1  - Mozeiko, Jennifer
A1  - Krueger, Frank
A1  - Grafman, Jordan
A1  - Coelho, Carl
SP  - 308
EP  - 319
VL  - 119
IS  - 
N2  - The objective of the present study was to investigate structural changes in the narrative discourse of individuals with penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) following immediate and delayed story retellings. Additionally, the potential influence of immediate memory, working memory, and executive functions on narrative discourse performance were examined. The narrative discourse of two groups, 123 with pTBI and 44 non-brain injured (NBI), was sampled. Participants were asked to retell a wordless picture story immediately after viewing it and again 30-minutes later. Story narratives were analyzed using a variety of microlinguistic and macrostructural measures. <br><br>RESULTS revealed significant group differences of both microlinguistic and macrostructural measures following the immediate retell, but not following the delayed retell. Regression analyses revealed that immediate memory accounted for a modest degree of the explained variance for the production of critical content during narrative discourse. The observed deficits were relatively stable over a short delay (30minutes) and appeared attributable, in part, to difficulty with the encoding and consolidation of story content.<br><br>Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-3932
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.030
ID  - ref1
ER  -