Abstract thinking following severe traumatic brain injury
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Brain Injury
- Vol. 7 (5) , 411-423
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02699059309029684
Abstract
Abilities were studied in a sample of 34 individuals with severe TBI and a control group. The results indicate that TBI interferes with performance on tests requiring individuals to process information into new categories. There appears to be a dissociation between verbal abstract abilities and visual-perceptual abstract abilities. There is evidence that Goldstein and Sheerer's [1] postulate of a general 'abstract attitude' was at least partially correct. This attitude does not appear to be related to a general verbal ideational process, as dysphasic subjects were only deficient on a purely verbal abstract task.Keywords
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