ABSTRACT
Discourse macrolevel processing is related also to the status of particular cognitive skills such as memory and problem solving. Memory problems common to severe TBI may have contributed to difficulties in transforming information in their summaries. Summarization skills rely on the integrity of memory systems because the individual must comprehend the meaning, retrieve from short-term memory the most important information, and then transform the information through inferencing (Brown & Day, 1983; Chapman et aI., 1999; Kinnunen & Vauras, 1995). However, performance on an episodic memory measure did not correlate with ability to transform discourse information in a summary in this study. That is, children with higher recall did not necessarily show an increased use of transformed information. In fact, if anything, the relation was the reverse of expected in that there was a negative correlation.
