SynthesisNeuropsychological rehabilitation2018
The use of standardised short-term and working memory tests in aphasia research: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06068296 (Towards a Clinical Test Battery for the Assessment of Verbal Short-term Memory Abilities With Linguistic Variations in Patients With Poststroke Aphasia.), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers.
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Towards a Clinical Test Battery for the Assessment of Verbal Short-term Memory Abilities With Linguistic Variations in Patients With Poststroke Aphasia.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Non-Verbal Working Memory in Post-Stroke Motor Aphasia: A Pilot Study Using the Tactual Span.Neurology international · 2025Article
- Current status of Tele-speech language therapy by type and support for patients with post-stroke aphasia: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Comparative effects of deep brain stimulation in subthalamic nucleus and globus pallidus interna on verbal fluency and working memory in adult populations with parkinson's disease: A systematic review.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2025Review
- Errorless and errorful learning in people with aphasia across novel-object pairing and word retrieval tasks.Aphasiology · 2024Article
- An electrophysiological and behavioral investigation of feedback-based learning in aphasia.Aphasiology · 2024Article
- The right uncinate fasciculus supports verbal short-term memory in aphasia.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Verbal fluency difficulties in aphasia: A combination of lexical and executive control deficits.International journal of language & communication disorders · 2022Article
- Predictors of Therapy Response in Chronic Aphasia: Building a Foundation for Personalized Aphasia Therapy.Journal of stroke · 2022Review
- Cognitive Training to Enhance Aphasia Therapy (Co-TrEAT): A Feasibility Study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Article
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- Lesions that do or do not impair digit span: a study of 816 stroke survivors.Brain communications · 2021Article
- Effects of executive attention on sentence processing in aphasia.Aphasiology · 2020Article
- Characteristics of Non-linguistic Cognitive Impairment in Post-stroke Aphasia Patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- Nonlinguistic Cognitive Factors Predict Treatment-Induced Recovery in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Short-term memory span in aphasia: Insights from speech-timing measures.Journal of neurolinguistics · 2018Article
- Short-Term and Working Memory Treatments for Improving Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia: A Review and a Replication Study.Seminars in speech and language · 2017Review
- Short-Term Memory and Aphasia: From Theory to Treatment.Seminars in speech and language · 2017Review
- Conversation Therapy with People with Aphasia and Conversation Partners using Video Feedback: A Group and Case Series Investigation of Changes in Interaction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Impairments of short-term and working memory (STM, WM), both verbal and non-verbal, are ubiquitous in aphasia. Increasing interest in assessing STM and WM in aphasia research and clinical practice as well as a growing evidence base of STM/WM treatments for aphasia warrant an understanding of the range of standardised STM/WM measures that have been utilised in aphasia. To date, however, no previous systematic review has focused on aphasia. Accordingly, the goals of this systematic review were: (1) to identify standardised tests of STM and WM utilised in the aphasia literature, (2) to evaluate critically the psychometric strength of these tests, and (3) to appraise critically the quality of the investigations utilising these tests. Results revealed that a very limited number of standardised tests, in the verbal and non-verbal domains, had robust psychometric properties. Standardisation samples to elicit normative data were often small, and most measures exhibited poor validity and reliability properties. Studies using these tests inconsistently documented demographic and aphasia variables essential to interpreting STM/WM test outcomes. In light of these findings, recommendations are provided to foster, in the future, consistency across aphasia studies and confidence in STM/WM tests as assessment and treatment outcome measures.
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