Eight adults with right hemisphere damage (RHD) and seven non-brain-damaged (NBD)
matched controls participated in first-encounter conversations. The incidence and nature of …

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

Background: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can cause challenges with information
gathering. Cognitive processes aid in implicit and explicit information gathering, yet the …

We investigated the hypotheses that impaired discourse processing following right
hemisphere damage is mediated by task difficulty and is associated with deficits in discourse …

Background: In a previous report of topic use in semi-structured conversations (Brady,
Mackenzie, & Armstrong, 2003), we did not find the often-described gross topic deficit in …

Purpose Right-hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can affect pragmatic aspects of
communication that may contribute to an impaired ability to gather information. Questions …

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 …

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were:(1) to identify and compare the dyadic
interaction in turns between RHD and non-brain-damaged (NBD) groups;(2) to investigate …

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 …

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