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 …

Background: This manuscript reports the initial phase of testing for a novel,“Contextual
constraint” treatment, designed to stimulate inefficient language comprehension processes …

Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension
difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic …

Background: Comprehension deficits that typify adults with right brain damage (RBD) have
been linked to considerations of processing capacity and processing demands, as well as to …

The ability to make inferences for the purposes of comprehension is considered an
important factor in pragmatic ability. In this experimental group study with stroke patients, the …

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

This paper considers the nature and generality of right brain-damaged patients' difficulties
with interpreting intended meanings. Evidence is summarized from the authors' research …

Evidence conflicts as to whether adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) generate
inferences during text comprehension. M. Beeman (1993) reported that adults with RHD fail …

Background: In 1990, Hough conducted a study investigating the role of theme organization
on discourse comprehension in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). She …

Normal comprehension skill is linked with the proficiency of a suppression mechanism,
which functions to dampen mental activation that becomes irrelevant or inappropriate to a …