Right hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and left hemisphere-damaged (LHD) aphasic patients
were tested on a nonverbal cartoon completion task that included a humorous (Joke) and a …

The narrative skills of nonaphasic individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD) were
compared with those of a group of healthy participants. All participants scored within the …

To secure information on which aspects of linguistic functioning might be mediated by the
nondominant hemisphere, a test battery assessing sensitivity to narrational and humorous …

Eleven patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD), 11 left hemisphere damaged (LHD)
nonaphasic subjects, and 11 neurologically intact controls were given three story description …

Single words, familiar phrases (idioms and speech formulas), and novel sentences
(matched to the familiar phrases in length, frequency, and structure) were selected for a …

Verbal humor deficits were investigated in right-hemisphere-damaged patients. It was
hypothesized that the appreciation of jokes presupposes two elements: sensitivity to the …

Abstract Aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged, and non-brain-damaged subjects heard short
narrative paragraphs. Each paragraph contained four main ideas and one or more details …

The effects of delayed presentation of a central theme on the comprehension and
interpretation of narratives were investigated in adults with right and left hemisphere brain …

Understanding utterances in conversations requires a listener to weight the disparate pieces
of information present in a discourse. In this study, we examined how right hemisphere brain …

A scrambled Story Test was given to four subgroups of aphasic patients and to one group
each of right-hemisphere-damaged patients and of normal controls. Subjects were asked to …