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

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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …

This etymological definition can serve as a useful reminder of some facts that will concern
us. The first of these is that the meaning of a conversation does not follow simply from the …

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 …

Predictive inferencing was evaluated in 13 adults with right hemisphere damage (RHD) and
11 adults without brain damage (NBD). Brief narrative stimuli that strongly suggested a …

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