Inference deficits in right brain-damaged patients

HH Brownell, HH Potter, AM Bihrle, H Gardner - Brain and language, 1986 - Elsevier
The inferential reasoning ability of right hemisphere-damaged (RHD) patients was tested by
presenting pairs of sentences which were to be treated as single, integrated units. The two …

An investigation of the ability to process inferences in language following right hemisphere brain damage

S McDonald, R Wales - Brain and language, 1986 - Elsevier
Twenty-two right hemisphere brain-damaged and 22 non-brain-damaged patients were
given a multiple-choice recognition task which contained true statements, statements which …

Discourse comprehension by right-hemisphere stroke patients: Deficits of prediction and revision

R Molloy, HH Brownell, H Gardner - Discourse ability and brain damage …, 1990 - Springer
This etymological definition can serve as a useful reminder of some facts that will concern
us. The first of these is that the meaning of a conversation does not follow simply from the …

Distinguishing lies from jokes: Theory of mind deficits and discourse interpretation in right hemisphere brain-damaged patients

E Winner, H Brownell, F Happé, A Blum, D Pincus - Brain and language, 1998 - Elsevier
Right-hemisphere brain damaged (RHD) patients and a normal control group were tested
for their ability to infer first-and second-order mental states and to understand the …

Text comprehension after brain injury: left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes.

EC Ferstl, T Guthke, DY von Cramon - Neuropsychology, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
Comprehending language in context requires inferencing, particularly for the establishment
of local coherence. In the neurolinguistic literature, an inference deficit after right …

Right-hemispheric damage and verbal problem solving behavior

A Caramazza, J Gordon, EB Zurif, D DeLuca - Brain and language, 1976 - Elsevier
Patients with right-hemisphere damage, who ostensibly have no linguistic impairment, are
relatively incapable of solving two-term series problems in which comparative adjectives in …

Semantic processing in the right hemisphere may contribute to drawing inferences from discourse

M Beeman - Brain and language, 1993 - Elsevier
After listening to multiple-episode stories that promoted coherence inferences, right
hemisphere-damaged patients answered Inference questions about the stories less …

Mechanisms of discourse comprehension impairment after right hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins, MT Lehman-Blake, A Baumgaertner… - 2001 - ASHA
This study examined the generality of a previous finding indicating that difficulty suppressing
or inhibiting context-inappropriate interpretations is an important predictor of narrative …

Theory of mind and pragmatic understanding following right hemisphere damage

M Siegal, J Carrington, M Radel - Brain and language, 1996 - Elsevier
It has been maintained that 3-year-olds' difficulties in correctly predicting the undesired
outcome of false beliefs reflects difficulties in interpreting the implications of conversations …

Solving deductive-reasoning problems after unilateral temporal lobectomy

DE Read - Brain and Language, 1981 - Elsevier
The possible functional role of mental imagery in solving deductive-reasoning problems was
investigated. Patients with left or right temporal lobectomies and normal control subjects had …