Unilateral brain damage effects on processing homonymous and polysemous words

E Klepousniotou, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 2005 - Elsevier
Using an auditory semantic priming paradigm, the present study investigated the abilities of
left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) non-fluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and …

Processing homonymy and polysemy: Effects of sentential context and time-course following unilateral brain damage

E Klepousniotou, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 2005 - Elsevier
The present study investigated the abilities of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) non-fluent
aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD), and normal control individuals to access, in …

Activation and maintenance of peripheral semantic features of unambiguous words after right hemisphere brain damage in adults

CA Tompkins, W Fassbinder, VL Scharp, KM Meigh - Aphasiology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The right cerebral hemisphere (RH) sustains activation of subordinate,
secondary, less common, and/or distantly related meanings of words. Much of the pertinent …

Sensitivity to local sentence context information in lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from left-and right-hemisphere-damaged individuals

CM Grindrod, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 2003 - Elsevier
Using a cross-modal semantic priming paradigm, the present study investigated the ability of
left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) nonfluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and …

Contextual influences on comprehension of multiple-meaning words by right hemisphere brain-damaged and non-brain-damaged adults

AB Schmitzer, M Strauss, S DeMarco - Aphasiology, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
This investigation examined the influence of context on the interpretation of denotative and
connotative meanings of homographs in right hemisphere brain-damaged (RHBD) and non …

Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution in a discourse context: Evidence from individuals with unilateral left and right hemisphere lesions

CM Grindrod, SR Baum - Brain and cognition, 2005 - Elsevier
In the present study, a cross-modal semantic priming task was used to investigate the ability
of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) nonfluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) …

Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from individuals with complex language impairment following left-hemisphere lesions

DA Copland, HJ Chenery, BE Murdoch - Brain and Language, 2002 - Elsevier
Nine individuals with complex language deficits following left-hemisphere cortical lesions
and a matched control group (n= 9) performed speeded lexical decisions on the third word …

Knowledge and strategies for processing lexical metaphor after right or left hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1990 - ASHA
This study was designed to assess how unilateral right hemisphere brain damage (RHD)
affects the knowledge and processing of metaphoric aspects of word meaning. Ambiguous …

Simulating the pattern of right-hemisphere-damaged patients for the processing of the alternative metaphorical meanings of words: Evidence in favor of a cognitive …

L Monetta, C Ouellet-Plamondon, Y Joanette - Brain and Language, 2006 - Elsevier
Lately, many studies have suggested that communication impairments in brain-damaged
individuals might be explained—at least in part—in terms of cognitive resource allocation …

Appreciation of metaphoric alternative word meanings by left and right brain-damaged patients

HH Brownell, TL Simpson, AM Bihrle, HH Potter… - Neuropsychologia, 1990 - Elsevier
Appreciation of metaphoric and nonmetaphoric alternative word meanings was assessed in
19 aphasic, left (LHD) and 15 non-aphasic, right (RHD) hemisphere brain-damaged stroke …