Sample Annotated Bibliography Entry

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Sample Annotated Bibliography Entry
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• King, A. K., Hough, M. S., Vos, P., Walker, M.
  M., Givens, G. (2006). Word retrieval
  following mild TBI Implications for categorical
  deficits. Aphasiology, 20, 235-245.

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(purpose)

• The purpose of this study was to measure response
  time and accuracy of noun and verb retrieval in
  patients with mild TBI. The authors hoped to
  shed light on how lexical processing takes place
  in brains with diffuse injury as opposed to
  brains with defined lesions.

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(method)

• The researchers tested two groups of 10, one
  group with no brain injury, and one with mild
  TBI. The groups were matched for age, gender,
  and education. The Test of Adolescent/ Adult
  Word Finding was used to measure picture naming
  for nouns, sentence completion, description
  naming, picture naming for verbs, and category
  naming. Participants were measured according to
  accuracy and response time.

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(results)

• The researchers found no significant differences
  in accuracy of word retrieval between the MTBI
  group and the NBD group. However, the NBD group
  was faster on tasks. The MTBI group also named
  living items more accurately than they named
  non-living items.

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(discussion)

• The varied results of this study reinforce
  previous studies which have found a complex and
  distributed network for processing nouns and
  verbs. The authors noted that more research is
  necessary to fully understand the multiple levels
  of difficulty in word retrieval characteristic of
  brain injured patients.