Coarse coding and discourse comprehension in adults with right hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins, VL Scharp, KM Meigh, W Fassbinder - Aphasiology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension
difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic …

A novel, implicit treatment for language comprehension processes in right hemisphere brain damage: Phase I data

CA Tompkins, MT Blake, J Wambaugh, K Meigh - Aphasiology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Background: This manuscript reports the initial phase of testing for a novel,“Contextual
constraint” treatment, designed to stimulate inefficient language comprehension processes …

Theoretical considerations for understanding “understanding” by adults with right hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins - … on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and …, 2008 - ASHA
This article reviews and evaluates leading accounts of narrative comprehension deficits in
adults with focal damage to the right cerebral hemisphere (RHD). It begins with a discussion …

Generalisation of a novel implicit treatment for coarse coding deficit in right hemisphere brain damage: A single-participant experiment

CA Tompkins, VL Scharp, KM Meigh… - Aphasiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background: This manuscript reports generalisation effects of Contextual Constraint
Treatment for an adult with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Contextual Constraint …

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 …

Contextual Constraint Treatment for coarse coding deficit in adults with right hemisphere brain damage: Generalisation to narrative discourse comprehension

ML Blake, CA Tompkins, VL Scharp… - Neuropsychological …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Coarse coding is the activation of broad semantic fields that can include multiple word
meanings and a variety of features, including those peripheral to a word's core meaning. It is …

Discourse impairments following right hemisphere brain damage: A critical review

CL Johns, KM Tooley, MJ Traxler - Language and linguistics …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) rarely causes aphasias marked by clear and
widespread failures of comprehension or extreme difficulty producing fluent speech …

Comprehension of humorous and nonhumorous materials by left and right brain-damaged patients

AM Bihrle, HH Brownell, JA Powelson, H Gardner - Brain and cognition, 1986 - Elsevier
Right hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and left hemisphere-damaged (LHD) aphasic patients
were tested on a nonverbal cartoon completion task that included a humorous (Joke) and a …

[图书][B] Analysis and description of narrative discourse in right-hemisphere-damaged adults: A comparison with neurologically normal and left-hemisphere-damaged …

SD Uryase, RJ Duffy, BZ Liles - 1991 - aphasiology.pitt.edu
The appropriateness of speech-language services for right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD)
adults has been established (Davis et al., 1981), and the deficits of their verbal discourse …

Discourse in a right-hemisphere brain-damaged subject

SM Sherratt, C Penn - Aphasiology, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
This study analysed narrative and procedural discourse samples produced by a right-
hemisphere brain-damaged (RHBD) and a non-brain-damaged subject according to a …