NIH R01 · 2024
Language Processing in Context Following Traumatic Brain Injury
ABSTRACT Adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have chronic deficits in cognitive-communication and these impairments have been linked to negative outcomes and poor community reintegration and independence. A significant challenge in the field is that commonly used methods to detect these deficits in clinical and research settings lack the required sensitivity and have focused on a limited subset of discourse tasks that do not reliably predict communication outcomes. At the heart of our proposal is the idea that current theories of cognitive- communication are too narrow and the methods used to detect deficits are too limiting. In contrast to current conceptualizations which state that…
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