Nature & Assessment RHD

Question 1

What is course semantic coding?

Answer 1

Course semantic coding concerns identifying distant meanings and features regardless of contextual congruity ex: apple and rotten.

Some people with RHD thought to have difficulties with this (COURSE CODING DEFICIT HYPOTHESIS)

Question 2

What is fine semantic coding?

Answer 2

Fine semantic coding entails inhibiting all but a limited number of words that are related to the dominant or contextually appropriate meaning of a word ex: apple and red, round

Question 3

What is the suppression deficit hypothesis?

Answer 3

Idea that many with RHD have activations of multiple interpretations for ambiguous words, sentences and phrases, but with ineffective suppression of unwanted meanings

Question 4

What types of broad impairments might be expected in RHD?

Answer 4

Pragmatics, prosody, reading and writing, discourse, lexical/semantic processing, anosognosia

Question 5

What is the cognitive resources hypothesis?

Answer 5

Those with RHD may have more obvious deficits when doing tasks with high attentional demands

Question 6

How can you manipulate the cognitive demands of the task?

Answer 6

change supports, prompts, attention demands, # of characteristics

Question 7

What is the social cognition deficits hypothesis?

Answer 7

Idea those with RHD may have difficulty using theory of mind, lessens ability to understand social information.

Question 8

What is the social cognition deficits hypothesis?

Answer 8

Idea those with RHD may have difficulty using theory of mind, lessens ability to understand social information.

Question 9

What are possible pragmatic deficits associated with RHD?

Answer 9

• -May effect emotion and/or nonverbal communication, intonation. May create difficulty processing emotion from facial expression.
• -May impact social elements of language, especially indirect requests, Gricean conversational principals
• -Difficulty figurative and implied meanings: idioms, metaphors
• -humor appreciation difficulties, inappropriate humor

Question 10

How might RHD effect discourse?

Answer 10

–May create difficulty picking up overall meaning from details, topic maintenance, word choice (ties in to prag. as well)

Question 11

How might RHD effect reading and writing?

Answer 11

• -Neglect dyslexia

- -Spatial agraphia

Question 12

How might RHD effect cognition?

Answer 12

Anosognosia, visual processing problems, memory problems, executive function

Question 13

What is anosognosia?

Answer 13

impaired awareness of deficits or reduced insights into how deficits affect daily functioning

Question 14

What factors complicate assessment of adults with RHD?

Answer 14

lack of normative data on cog. aspects, vast range of normal, dearth of research,