Cover Image
QR Code

Good enough or resource reduction? Understanding sentence processing challenges in mild traumatic brain injury.

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) often leads to subtle cognitive-communication difficulties. This study combined behavioural measures, eye-tracking, and cognitive tasks to investigate sentence processing in individuals with mTBI. Twenty-five participants with mTBI and 30 neurotypical controls comp...

Full description

Published in:Language, Cognition & Neuroscience Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 699 - 719
Main Authors: Vogt, Addison, Ratiu, Ileana, LaCroix, Arianna N.
Format: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2026
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=194805199&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 194805199
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        23273798
        IQ6T
      jtl: Language, Cognition & Neuroscience
      issn: 23273798
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Jul2026
      vid: 41
      iid: 6
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    artinfo:
      ui:
        194805199
        193483922
        194805199
        194805199
        10.1080/23273798.2026.2667288
        194805199
      ppf: 699
      ppct: 20
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: Good enough or resource reduction? Understanding sentence processing challenges in mild traumatic brain injury.
      aug:
        au:
          Vogt, Addison
          Ratiu, Ileana
          LaCroix, Arianna N.
        affil: Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
      sug:
        subj:
          Brain Injuries Complications
          Language Disorders
          Eye Movements Physiology
          Language Processing Evaluation
          Memory, Short Term Evaluation
          Attention Evaluation
          Cognition
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Adult
          Adolescence
          Regression
          Language Tests
          Descriptive Statistics
          Data Analysis Software
          Poisson Distribution
          Effect Size
          Reaction Time
          Grammar
          Executive Function
          Psycholinguistics
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Neuropsychological Tests
          Blinking
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) often leads to subtle cognitive-communication difficulties. This study combined behavioural measures, eye-tracking, and cognitive tasks to investigate sentence processing in individuals with mTBI. Twenty-five participants with mTBI and 30 neurotypical controls completed a sentence-picture matching task featuring canonical and noncanonical sentence structures while eye movements were recorded. Cognitive function was assessed using working memory and attention tasks. Although aggregate group differences were minimal, eye-tracking measures revealed group differences in attentional allocation during sentence processing, suggesting altered coordination of cognitive resources following mTBI. These findings are most consistent with resource reduction accounts of sentence comprehension, which posit that comprehension difficulties arise from reduced efficiency in deploying cognitive resources as processing demands increase. These results additionally highlight the value of multimodal approaches for detecting subtle language processing differences following mTBI.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype:
        pictorial
        research
        tables/charts
        Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N