ERIC Number: EJ1072373
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Aug
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1092-4388
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An Examination of Strategy Implementation during Abstract Nonlinguistic Category Learning in Aphasia
Vallila-Rohter, Sofia; Kiran, Swathi
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v58 n4 p1195-1209 Aug 2015
Purpose: Our purpose was to study strategy use during nonlinguistic category learning in aphasia. Method: Twelve control participants without aphasia and 53 participants with aphasia (PWA) completed a computerized feedback-based category learning task consisting of training and testing phases. Accuracy rates of categorization in testing phases were calculated. To evaluate strategy use, strategy analyses were conducted over training and testing phases. Participant data were compared with model data that simulated complex multi-cue, single feature, and random pattern strategies. Learning success and strategy use were evaluated within the context of standardized cognitive-linguistic assessments. Results: Categorization accuracy was higher among control participants than among PWA. The majority of control participants implemented suboptimal or optimal multi-cue and single-feature strategies by testing phases of the experiment. In contrast, a large subgroup of PWA implemented random patterns, or no strategy, during both training and testing phases of the experiment. Conclusions: Person-to-person variability arises not only in category learning ability but also in the strategies implemented to complete category learning tasks. PWA less frequently developed effective strategies during category learning tasks than control participants. Certain PWA may have impairments of strategy development or feedback processing not captured by language and currently probed cognitive abilities.
Descriptors: Aphasia, Comparative Analysis, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Classification, Accuracy, Learning Strategies, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Speech Impairments, Communication Disorders
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (DHHS)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1K18DC011517; 1R21/R33DC010461