PSYC3331 Lecture 3: PSYC3311 Lecture 3: Skye Lecture 3
Young adults
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Motor vehicle accidents
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Damage throughout the brain
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Dorsolateral
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executive function
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Orbitofrontal
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social cognition and emotion
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Frontal lobes
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Traumatic brain injury
Memory
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Attention/information processing speed
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Planning
Conceptual reasoning
Flexibility
Inhibition reasoning
Executive function
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Emotion
ToM
Social cognition
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Poor
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Neuropsychological problems in TBI
Verbose, tangential, egocentric, disinhibited
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Impoverished, sparse, little spontaneous output
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Language intact but communication is to
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How to measure?
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Communication Disorders After TBI
Cooperative principle Grice (1975)
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Truth
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Quantity
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Quality
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Relevance
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4 maxims:
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Intentional
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lead to inferences, useful for dramatic effect, diplomacy etc.
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Unintentional
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lead to confusion
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Violations of these principles
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May affect both production and comprehension
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Pragmatic theory and communication disorders
Story telling
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Explaining a procedure
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Much of discourse follows an inherent plan, e.g., narratives
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Will disorders of executive function disrupt discourse plans?
Much of discourse requires taking the perspective of the other person
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Emotion perception
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Theory of mind
Social cognition entails
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Discourse
Communication disorders in brain injury
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