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Abstract:
Abstract: Head injury is commonly associated with executive
dysfunction and impaired functioning in both social and non-social
aspects of everyday life. The present study was designed to assess
performance on non-social tests of executive skills, and to examine
the relationship between this and performance on tasks involving
interpretation of social interactions. The non-social tests
consisted of standardised neuropsychological measures of executive
function. The social tests involved making judgements about verbal
interactions between pairs of characters. Head-injured non-aphasic
participants were compared with a healthy control group matched in
age, sex and NART IQ. The head-injured group was impaired relative
to the control group in aspects of both non-social and social
tasks. Possible accounts of the findings in terms of a generalised
impairment in executive functions or additional selective
impairment in social comprehension are considered.
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