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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Comprehending language in context requires inferencing, particularly for the establishment
of local coherence. In the neurolinguistic literature, an inference deficit after right …

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 …

After listening to multiple-episode stories that promoted coherence inferences, right
hemisphere-damaged patients answered Inference questions about the stories less …

This study examined the generality of a previous finding indicating that difficulty suppressing
or inhibiting context-inappropriate interpretations is an important predictor of narrative …

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 …

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 …