Revealing language deficits following stroke: the cost of doing two things at once
Issue Date
2006-01Author
Kemper, Susan
McDowd, Joan M.
Pohl, Patricia
Herman, Ruth E.
Jackson, Susan
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press)
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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The costs of doing two things were assessed for a group of healthy older adults and older adults who were tested at least 6 months after a stroke. A baseline language sample was compared to language samples collected while the participants were performing concurrent motor tasks or selective ignoring tasks. Whereas the healthy older adults showed few costs due to the concurrent task demands, the language samples from the stroke survivors were disrupted by the demands of doing two things at once. The dual task measures reveal long-lasting effects of strokes that were not evident when stroke survivors were assessed using standard clinical tools.
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This is an electronic version of an article published in Kemper, S., McDowd, J., Pohl, P., Herman, R., & Jackson, S. (2006). Revealing language deficits following stroke: the cost of doing two things at once. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 13, 115-139. PM#16766346. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition is available online at www.taylorandfrancis.com
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Kemper, S., McDowd, J., Pohl, P., Herman, R., & Jackson, S. (2006). Revealing language deficits following stroke: the cost of doing two things at once. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 13, 115-139. PM#16766346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825580500501496
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