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Verbal selective learning after traumatic brain injury in children
Author(s) -
Hanten Gerri,
Chapman Sandra B.,
Gamino Jacquelyn F.,
Zhang Lifang,
Benton Shelley Black,
StallingsRoberson Garland,
Hunter Jill V.,
Levin Harvey S.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.20298
Subject(s) - traumatic brain injury , injury prevention , poison control , psychology , suicide prevention , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , medical emergency , neuroscience , psychiatry , pathology
Selective learning (SL), the ability to select items to learn from among other items, engages cognitive control, which is purportedly mediated by the frontal cortex and its circuitry. Using incentive‐based auditory word recall and expository discourse tasks, we studied the efficiency of SL in children ages 6 to 16 years who had sustained severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) at least 1 year earlier. We hypothesized that SL would be compromised by severe TBI. Results indicated that children with severe TBI performed significantly worse than age‐matched typically developing children on word‐ and discourse‐level measures of SL efficiency with no significant group differences in number of items recalled from auditory word lists or declarative facts. We conclude that severe TBI disrupts incentive‐based cognitive control processes, possibly due to involvement of frontal neural networks. Ann Neurol 2004; 56: 847–853