The use of pronoun anaphora and speaker mood in the interpretation of conversational utterances by right hemisphere brain-damaged patients

HH Brownell, JJ Carroll, A Rehak, A Wingfield - Brain and language, 1992 - Elsevier
Understanding utterances in conversations requires a listener to weight the disparate pieces
of information present in a discourse. In this study, we examined how right hemisphere brain …

The effects of right hemisphere damage on the pragmatic interpretation of conversational remarks

JA Kaplan, HH Brownell, JR Jacobs, H Gardner - Brain and language, 1990 - Elsevier
The ability to interpret conversational utterances was assessed in a group of 12 male
patients with unilateral right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) and 12 non-brain-damaged …

The effects of right-hemisphere brain damage on patients' use of terms of personal reference

H Brownell, D Pincus, A Blum, A Rehak, E Winner - Brain and Language, 1997 - Elsevier
Successful communication depends on social as well as linguistic factors. In conversation,
for example, a speaker must often refer to another person. Choosing an appropriate term of …

[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 …

The role of the right hemisphere in the apprehension of complex linguistic materials

W Wapner, S Hamby, H Gardner - Brain and language, 1981 - Elsevier
To secure information on which aspects of linguistic functioning might be mediated by the
nondominant hemisphere, a test battery assessing sensitivity to narrational and humorous …

Variation in the discourse of non-brain-damaged speakers on a clinical task

E Armstrong - Aphasiology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Background: As variation in normal discourse is well acknowledged in the sociolinguistic
literature (Labov, 1972), it is logical that it must be inherent in the discourse of …

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 …

Semantic processing in the right hemisphere may contribute to drawing inferences from discourse

M Beeman - Brain and language, 1993 - Elsevier
After listening to multiple-episode stories that promoted coherence inferences, right
hemisphere-damaged patients answered Inference questions about the stories less …

Clinical relevance of discourse characteristics after right hemisphere brain damage

ML Blake - 2006 - ASHA
Purpose Discourse characteristics of adults with right hemisphere brain damage are similar
to those reported for healthy older adults, prompting the question of whether changes are …

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 …