Activation and maintenance of peripheral semantic features of unambiguous words after right hemisphere brain damage in adults

CA Tompkins, W Fassbinder, VL Scharp, KM Meigh - Aphasiology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The right cerebral hemisphere (RH) sustains activation of subordinate,
secondary, less common, and/or distantly related meanings of words. Much of the pertinent …

Slowed lexical-semantic activation in individuals with right hemisphere brain damage?

W Fassbinder, CA Tompkins - Aphasiology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated whether prolonged interference from contextually inappropriate
semantic activation after right hemisphere damage (RHD) could be related to a slowing of …

Processing homonymy and polysemy: Effects of sentential context and time-course following unilateral brain damage

E Klepousniotou, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 2005 - Elsevier
The present study investigated the abilities of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) non-fluent
aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD), and normal control individuals to access, in …

Unilateral brain damage effects on processing homonymous and polysemous words

E Klepousniotou, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 2005 - Elsevier
Using an auditory semantic priming paradigm, the present study investigated the abilities of
left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) non-fluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and …

Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution in a discourse context: Evidence from individuals with unilateral left and right hemisphere lesions

CM Grindrod, SR Baum - Brain and cognition, 2005 - Elsevier
In the present study, a cross-modal semantic priming task was used to investigate the ability
of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) nonfluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) …

Right hemisphere semantic processing of visual words in an aphasic patient: an fMRI study

BT Gold, A Kertesz - Brain and Language, 2000 - Elsevier
This study was designed to identify the neural network supporting the semantic processing
of visual words in a patient with large-scale damage to left-hemisphere (LH) language …

Sensitivity to local sentence context information in lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from left-and right-hemisphere-damaged individuals

CM Grindrod, SR Baum - Brain and Language, 2003 - Elsevier
Using a cross-modal semantic priming paradigm, the present study investigated the ability of
left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) nonfluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and …

Knowledge and strategies for processing lexical metaphor after right or left hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1990 - ASHA
This study was designed to assess how unilateral right hemisphere brain damage (RHD)
affects the knowledge and processing of metaphoric aspects of word meaning. Ambiguous …

Coarse coding and discourse comprehension in adults with right hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins, VL Scharp, KM Meigh, W Fassbinder - Aphasiology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension
difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic …

Idiosyncratic word associations following right hemisphere damage

G Glosser, H Goodglass - Journal of clinical and experimental …, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
Single oral word associations produced by right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) stroke
patients and age-matched healthy controls were analyzed to assess the right-hemisphere …