Gist-reasoning in adults with traumatic brain injury
dc.contributor.author | Vas, Asha | |
dc.contributor.author | Chapman, Sandra B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-02T14:13:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-06-02T14:13:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.description | Article originally published in International NeuroTrauma Letter.. English. Published 2012. Not available online. | |
dc.description.abstract | One remarkable capacity of the human brain is its adeptness in extracting ‘gist’ from information that we encounter everyday (Bartlett, 1932, Chapman, Sparks, Levin et al., 2004; Reyna & Brainerd, 1995). Researchers refer to gist as global meanings gleaned from verbal or auditory information (e.g., Kintsch, 1994; vanDijk & Kintsch, 1983). For example, the gist of a movie may include a general sense of the story line or the relation between the key characters and events in the movie. Chapman and colleagues (2004) extend this notion of gist to introduce a construct labeled ‘gist-reasoning’ that denotes the ability to form novel and abstract level meanings than conveyed by the concrete details. That is, gist-reasoning involves combining the explicit input/details of the movie through complex reasoning to construct deeper level interpretations. In essence, gist reasoning is a perfect example of the adage ‘the whole is more than the sum of its parts”. The metric of gist-reasoning has proven sensitive in characterizing deficiencies in abstracting meanings from complex information in adolescents with TBI, who had near normal IQ as compared to their non-injured peers (Chapman, Gamino, Cook et al., 2006). Furthermore, improvements in gist-reasoning ability have been associated with increased performance on measures of immediate memory, working memory, inhibition, and switching (Anand, Chapman, Rackley et al., 2010; Vas, Chapman, Cook et al., 2011). However, training of basic cognitive processes such as memory and attention did not improve higher-level gist-reasoning (Gamino, Chapman, Hull et al., 2010). Thus, gist-reasoning could be best understood as a complex task that is positively associated with cognitive control processes (e.g. working memory, inhibition, switching) and immediate memory. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | This is a pre-print version of an article that is not available online. Recommended citation: Vas, A. K., & Chapman, S. B. (2012). Gist-reasoning in adults with traumatic brain injury. International NeuroTrauma Letter. This item has been deposited with the author’s permission and in the absence of publisher policies. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11274/15080 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | International Brain Injury Association | en_US |
dc.subject | Complex reasoning | en_US |
dc.subject | Improvements in gist-reasoning | en_US |
dc.subject | Cognitive control processes | en_US |
dc.title | Gist-reasoning in adults with traumatic brain injury | en_US |
dc.type | Pre-Print | en_US |
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