RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Memory and information processing capacity after closed head injury.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 889
OP 895
DO 10.1136/jnnp.44.10.889
VO 44
IS 10
A1 D Gronwall
A1 P Wrightson
YR 1981
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/44/10/889.abstract
AB The relation between duration of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), performance on memory tests, and the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) was examined in two samples of young adult closed head injury patients. Three different effects were isolated: (1) an attention and concentration factor, related to PASAT scores, (2) a deficit in the ability to place material into long-term memory storage, related to PTA durations, and (3) an impairment in the ability to retrieve material once it has been stored, which was not predicted by either PTA or PASAT.