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ArticleBrain and language2024

Temporary ambiguity and memory for the context of spoken language in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.

Kaitlin M Lord, Melissa C Duff, Sarah Brown-Schmidt

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  1. Reduced temporal organization of narrative recall in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2025
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Kaitlin M LordDepartment of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, USA. Electronic address: klord1@uci.edu.
Melissa C DuffDepartment of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA.
Sarah Brown-SchmidtDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, USA.

Funding

Language processing in context in individuals with Alzheimer’s diseaseR01DC017926 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Melissa C Duff · 2020 to 2026
$5.2M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017926
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Language is processed incrementally, with addressees considering multiple candidate interpretations as speech unfolds, supporting the retention of these candidate interpretations in memory. For example, after interpreting the utterance, "Click on the striped bag", listeners exhibit better memory for non-mentioned items in the context that were temporarily consistent with what was said (e.g., dotted bag), vs. not consistent (e.g., dotted tie), reflecting the encoding of linguistic context in memory. Here, we examine the impact of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) on memory for the contexts of language use. Participants with moderate-severe TBI (N=71) and non-injured comparison participants (NC, N=85) interpreted temporarily ambiguous utterances in rich contexts. A subsequent memory test demonstrated that participants with TBI exhibited impaired memory for context items and an attenuated memory advantage for mentioned items compared to NC participants. Nonetheless, participants with TBI showed similar, although attenuated, patterns in memory for temporarily-activated items as NC participants.

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Brain Injuries, TraumaticMemoryAdultFemaleHumansLanguageMaleMiddle AgedSpeechSpeech PerceptionYoung AdultAmbiguityContextLanguage processingMemoryReferenceTraumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

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PMID39317046
PMCPMC13180289

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