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Acquired Brain Injury Results in Specific Impairment of Planning Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2015

Connie Shears  and
Mary Gauvain
Connie Shears*
Affiliation:
Chapman University, Orange, California, USA
Mary Gauvain
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside, California, USA
*
Address for correspondence: Connie Shears, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA. E-mail: shears@chapman.edu
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Abstract

Assessment of executive functions, such as planning, often relies on tasks such as the Tower of Hanoi, which assess plan execution but not planning knowledge. Survivors of brain injury may perform within normal ranges on plan execution tasks yet have profound deficits in planning knowledge required for daily life. We examined survivors of brain injury and non-injured participants on an errand-planning task, to assess planning knowledge, and on a reading comprehension task, to distinguish inference-based knowledge of planning versus physical cause and effect. Errand-planning performance discriminated survivors of brain injury from non-injured participants. Additionally, survivors with higher scores performed similarly to non-injured participants on both inference tasks, whereas survivors with lower scores did not discriminate these two types of inferences. Findings suggest that the errand-planning task may be a useful measure of planning comprehension for survivors of brain injury and suggest a cognitive retraining strategy.

Keywords

brain injuryplanning knowledgeinference processeserrand-planning task
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Brain Impairment , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , May 2015 , pp. 28 - 45
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Copyright © Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment 2015 

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