The role of the right hemisphere in emotional communication

LX Blonder, D Bowers, KM Heilman - Brain, 1991 - academic.oup.com
Previous research has established that patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) are
impaired in the comprehension of emotional prosody and facial expression. There are …

Comprehension of emotional prosody following unilateral hemispheric lesions: Processing defect versus distraction defect

D Bowers, HB Coslett, RM Bauer, LJ Speedie… - Neuropsychologia, 1987 - Elsevier
Two studies were conducted in order to determine whether the poor performance of RHD
patients on emotional prosody tasks could be attributed to a defect in perceiving …

Perception of emotions from faces and voices following unilateral brain damage

K Kucharska-Pietura, ML Phillips, W Gernand… - Neuropsychologia, 2003 - Elsevier
The importance of the right hemisphere in emotion perception in general has been well
documented but its precise role is disputed. We compared the performance of 30 right …

Fundamental frequency encoding of linguistic and emotional prosody by right hemisphere-damaged speakers

MD Pell - Brain and language, 1999 - Elsevier
To illuminate the nature of the right hemisphere's involvement in expressive prosodic
functions, a story completion task was administered to matched groups of right hemisphere …

Impact of emotional content on discourse production in patients with unilateral brain damage

RL Bloom, JC Borod, LK Obler, LJ Gerstman - Brain and Language, 1992 - Elsevier
A picture story task was developed to examine expression of emotion via the verbal/lexical
channel. The task elicited discourse with either emotional, visual-spatial, or neutral content …

The role of the right hemisphere in the control of speech prosody in propositional and affective contexts

BE Shapiro, M Danly - Brain and language, 1985 - Elsevier
Sixteen right-handed adult males with localized insult to either the right or left hemisphere
and five control subjects without brain damage read aloud target sentences embedded in …

Hemispheric specialization in nonverbal communication

LI Benowitz, DM Bear, R Rosenthal, MM Mesulam… - Cortex, 1983 - Elsevier
Subjects sustaining right hemisphere damage were impaired in the ability to evaluate
emotional situations presented through nonverbal means, particularly through facial …

Unilateral brain damage, prosodic comprehension deficits, and the acoustic cues to prosody

MD Pell, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 1997 - Elsevier
Stimuli from two previously presented comprehension tasks of affective and linguistic
prosody (Pell & Baum, 1997) were analyzed acoustically and subjected to several …

Conversational abilities in patients with right hemisphere damage

Y Chantraine, Y Joanette, B Ska - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 1998 - Elsevier
Research on the conversation of subjects with right hemisphere damage has hitherto used
tasks too far removed from natural communication. Referential communication is proposed …

Characteristics of narrative discourse processing after damage to the right hemisphere

A Marini - Seminars in speech and language, 2012 - thieme-connect.com
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 …