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RULE-BASED CATEGORY LEARNING: AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OPTION IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
Author Info
Gaitonde, Suchita S
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1058296601
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2003, Master of Arts, Miami University, Speech Pathology and Audiology.
Abstract
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can cause changes in the physical, emotional, cognitive, and psychosocial functioning of the individual. Most of the cognitive rehabilitation programs treating patients with TBI focus on attention and memory retraining. Categorization is one of the most fundamental cognitive processes. Yet research in the area of TBI and categorization is limited. This study investigated one specific aspect, category learning in patients who sustained TBI. The performance of normal subjects was compared to the performance of the TBI subjects on three category-learning tasks. The results of the study indicated that subjects with TBI received more trials and made more errors during spontaneous categorization of stimuli across the 3 levels as compared to the normal subjects. Normal subjects delineated the rules spontaneously more frequently than TBI subjects who required cueing more frequently. In regards to the hierarchical structure of the rules, the number of trials received for spontaneous categorization of stimuli across the 3 levels increased as a function of the steps (1-5) for both the TBI and the normal subjects.
Committee
Fofi Constantinidou (Advisor)
Pages
74 p.
Subject Headings
Health Sciences, Speech Pathology
Keywords
Categorization
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Traumatic Bain Ijury
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Gaitonde, S. S. (2003).
RULE-BASED CATEGORY LEARNING: AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OPTION IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1058296601
APA Style (7th edition)
Gaitonde, Suchita.
RULE-BASED CATEGORY LEARNING: AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OPTION IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.
2003. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1058296601.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Gaitonde, Suchita. "RULE-BASED CATEGORY LEARNING: AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OPTION IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1058296601
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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