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 …

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

Eighteen right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and 15 control subjects listened to sentences
that ended in lexical ambiguities. The sentence verbs biased ambiguity interpretation. Probe …

Although it is common for descriptions of communication ability in people with right
hemisphere brain damage (RHBD) to include discourse deficits that affect pragmatic …

This study examined the effects of right brain-damage (RBD) on oral discourse production
using a multi-layered discourse processing model. Narrative and procedural discourse …

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

Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) rarely causes aphasias marked by clear and
widespread failures of comprehension or extreme difficulty producing fluent speech …

This study examined the extent to which participants were able to inhibit, or suppress, initial
inferences that were rendered inappropriate by subsequent information and the relation …

Background: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHBD) has been linked to a diverse range of
discourse-level communicative deficits generally based on subjective impressions …