Impairment in processing meaningless verbal material in several modalities: the relationship between short-term memory and phonological skills.
Phonological processing abilities were studied in a patient who, following focal brain damage, showed selective impairment in non-word reading, writing, and repetition and also a severe short-term memory (STM) deficit specific for auditorily presented verbal material. The patient could execute tasks involving phonemic manipulation and awareness perfectly. Our data, in contrast with earlier observations in a case of developmental phonological dyslexia, show that acquired impairment in non-word reading, writing, repetition, and immediate memory may occur despite good phonological processing abilities. The role of STM in processing meaningless verbal material is discussed.
Bisiacchi
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Cipolotti
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D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000523:psychology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000523:psychology*; D004411:Dyslexia, Acquired / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010700:Phonetics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014706:Verbal Learning