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 …

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) …

Understanding ambiguous words in biased sentences: evidence of transient contextual effects in individuals with nonthalamic subcortical lesions and Parkinson's …

DA Copland, HJ Chenery, BE Murdoch - Cortex, 2000 - Elsevier
A cross-modal priming experiment was used to investigate lexical ambiguity resolution
during sentence processing in individuals with nonthalamic subcortical lesions (NSL)(n …

Hemispheric differences in context sensitivity during lexical ambiguity resolution

D Titone - Brain and language, 1998 - Elsevier
Three experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of contextual constraint on
lexical ambiguity resolution in the cerebral hemispheres. A cross-modal priming variant of …

Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from individuals with complex language impairment following left-hemisphere lesions

DA Copland, HJ Chenery, BE Murdoch - Brain and Language, 2002 - Elsevier
Nine individuals with complex language deficits following left-hemisphere cortical lesions
and a matched control group (n= 9) performed speeded lexical decisions on the third word …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ambiguity's aftermath: How age differences in resolving lexical ambiguity affect subsequent comprehension

C Lee, KD Federmeier - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
When ambiguity resolution is difficult, younger adults recruit selection-related neural
resources that older adults do not. To elucidate the nature of those resources and the …

Semantic priming in patients with right frontal lobe lesions

CR McDonald, RM Bauer, JV Filoteo… - Journal of the …, 2005 - cambridge.org
Patients with unilateral, right frontal lobe damage (N= 13) and matched controls (N= 20)
performed a task of lexical ambiguity resolution in order to explore the contribution of right …