LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:12 December 2019
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Assessment of Working Memory in Monolingual Broca’s Aphasia

Pooja V., Lecturer
Rakshitha R. Srihari, II BASLP Student

Introduction

An intact working memory (WM) effects have been found across a range of complex cognitive processes and language processing (Caplan & Waters, 1999; Engle,2002; Wright & Shisler, 2005). The predominant view of WM was first proposed by Baddeley and Hitch (1974). Working memory (WM) is “a multicomponent system responsible for active maintenance of information in the face of ongoing processing and/or distraction” (Conway et al., 2005) which facilitates goal directed behavior.

Researchers have reported that the language problems seen in aphasia go beyond an impaired linguistic system and involve a complex cognitive deficit (Helm-Estabrooks, Bayles, Ramage, & Bryant, 1995; Chapey, 2001). A number of researchers have explored the integrity of working memory in adults with aphasia. Miyake et al., (1994) proposed that comprehension deficits in aphasia were the product of reduced WM capacity for language. Caspari et al., (1998) administered a simplified version of the reading span task to 23 individuals spanning a wide range of aphasia types and severity levels. The authors concluded that “the ability of aphasic individuals to comprehend language is predictable from their working memory capacities”. Friedmann and Gvion (2003) studied the relationship between verbal working memory and sentence comprehension in adults with conduction aphasia and agrammatic aphasia, and an NL group. Measures of working memory included several span measures: digit, word, nonword, a listening span task, and a 2-back task. The results of the study indicated that both aphasia groups presented with limited working memory abilities and performed poorly on sentence comprehension task.

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Pooja V.
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Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
poojavprince@gmail.com

Rakshitha Srihari (Student)
II BASLP
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
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