Abstract:
:Aphasic and nonaphasic listeners' comprehension of main ideas and details within coherent and noncoherent narrative discourse was examined. Coherent paragraphs contained one topic to which all sentences in the paragraph related. Noncoherent paragraphs contained a change in topic with every third or fourth sentence. Each paragraph contained four main ideas and one or more details that related to each main idea. Listeners' responses to yes/no questions following each paragraph yielded the following results: (1) Nonaphasic listeners comprehended the paragraphs better than aphasic listeners. (2) Both aphasic and nonaphasic listeners comprehended main ideas better than they comprehended details. (3) Coherence did not affect comprehension of main ideas for either group. (4) Coherence did not affect comprehension of details by nonaphasic subjects. (5) Coherence affected comprehension of details by aphasic subjects, and their comprehension of details in coherent paragraphs was worse than their comprehension of details in noncoherent paragraphs. There was no significant correlation between Token Test scores and measures of paragraph comprehension.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Wegner ML,Brookshire RH,Nicholas LEdoi
10.1016/0093-934x(84)90034-8subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-01-01 00:00:00pages
37-51issue
1eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
0093-934X(84)90034-8journal_volume
21pub_type
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