title: Short-term memory in young adults with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy.
abstract: We examined short-term memory activation processes and task-relevant, task-irrelevant, and dynamic inhibitory processes in a group of young adults with hypoxic-ischaemic prenatal spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (HI-CP, N=27) with group-level and person-oriented methods of data analysis. Performance was compared with age, sex, and education of a matched control group (N=135). We found that HI-CP is accompanied with low level of correct answers and high levels of task-relevant and task-irrelevant intrusions and repetitions on the Memory with Pause and Homogeneous Interference short-term memory tasks. Person-oriented analyses revealed several different configurations of dysfunction in the HI-CP group.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia. aaro.toomela@ut.ee
authors.forename: Aaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toomela
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D055815:Young Adult