- Title
- Implicit and explicit memory outcome in children who have sustained severe traumatic brain injury: impact of age at injury (preliminary findings)
- Creator
- Lah, Suncica; Epps, Adrienne; Levick, Wayne; Parry, Louise
- Relation
- Brain Injury Vol. 25, Issue 1, p. 44-52
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02699052.2010.531693
- Publisher
- Informa Healthcare
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Primary objective: to examine implicit and explicit memory outcome in children who had sustained severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) through childhood. Opposite patterns of impairments were expected: (i) impaired implicit memory in children with early TBI (TBI-EC,<6 years) and (ii) impaired explicit memory in children with late TBI (TBI-LC,≥6 years). Research design: children who had sustained severe TBI more then 1 year ago were assessed. Methods and procedure: fourteen children who had sustained severe TBI (TBI-EC, n=10 and TBI-LC, n=4) between 8 months and 13 years 7 months of age and 13 non-injured control subjects (NC) participated. Implicit (repetition priming and skill learning) and explicit verbal memory were examined. Results: the TBI group performed worse on implicit (repetition priming) and explicit memory tasks compared to the NC group. Moreover, impairments were found in implicit and explicit memory in the TBI-EC, but not in the TBI-LC group. Conclusions: this study has shown, for the first time, that severe childhood TBI may compromise not only explicit, but also implicit memory. Nevertheless, instead of a selective implicit memory impairment, it was found that children who sustained injuries in early childhood present with impairments in both memory systems.
- Subject
- traumatic brain injury; children; memory
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1047465
- Identifier
- uon:14781
- Identifier
- ISSN:0269-9052
- Language
- eng
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