ArticleBrain communications2021
Lesions that do or do not impair digit span: a study of 816 stroke survivors.
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- Modulation of memory by prism adaptation in healthy subjects.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Patterns of Impaired Neurocognitive Performance on the Global Neuropsychological Assessment, and Their Brain Structural Correlates in Recent-onset and Chronic Schizophrenia.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Interpreting and validating complexity and causality in lesion-symptom prognoses.Brain communications · 2023Review
- Cingulo-opercular and frontoparietal control network connectivity and executive functioning in older adults.GeroScience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Prior studies have reported inconsistency in the lesion sites associated with verbal short-term memory impairments. Here we asked: How many different lesion sites can account for selective impairments in verbal short-term memory that persist over time, and how consistently do these lesion sites impair verbal short-term memory? We assessed verbal short-term memory impairments using a forward digit span task from the Comprehensive Aphasia Test. First, we identified the incidence of digit span impairments in a sample of 816 stroke survivors (541 males/275 females; age at stroke onset 56 ± 13 years; time post-stroke 4.4 ± 5.2 years). Second, we studied the lesion sites in a subgroup of these patients (
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