This study examined hemispheric specialization for discourse reports of emotional and
nonemotional experience in 16 right-brain-damaged (RBD), 16 left-brain-damaged (LBD) …

In this preliminary study, hemispheric specialization for the experience and expression of
emotion was investigated. Subjects were right-brain-damaged (RBD), left-brain-damaged …

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 …

This study examines the contribution of the lexical/verbal channel to emotional processing in
16 right brain-damaged (RBD), 16 left brain-damaged (LBD) and 16 normal control (NC) …

Background: Hypotheses pertaining to laterality and emotion were tested. More specifically,
we were interested in whether the right hemisphere is dominant for verbally-presented …

Individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD) can comprehend simple scripts but have
difficulties understanding more complex forms of discourse such as stories and jokes. This …

Disorders in nonverbal communication of emotion have been documented in patients with
right hemisphere pathology; lexical expression of emotion is virtually unstudied. In this …

Emotional perception was examined in stroke patients across 3 communication channels:
facial, prosodic, and lexical. Hemispheric specialization for emotion was tested via right …

Background: Emotional expression or evaluation is intrinsically involved in all
communication. In discourse, it has the function of expressing the speaker's opinions …

The present study attempts to elucidate whether cerebral brain lesions differentially affect
the crossmodal decoding of emotional intonations in semantically meaningless sentences …