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) …

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: 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 …

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 …

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 …

Processing lexical ambiguity in sentential context: Eye-tracking data from brain-damaged and non-brain-damaged individuals

AK Laurinavichyute, A Ulicheva, MV Ivanova… - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study was to identify general and syndrome-specific deficits in
the lexical processing of individuals with non-fluent and fluent aphasia compared to …

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 sensitivities to lexical and contextual information: Evidence from lexical ambiguity resolution

O Peleg, Z Eviatar - Brain and Language, 2008 - Elsevier
The present study examined the manner in which both hemispheres utilize prior semantic
context and relative meaning frequency during the processing of homographs. Participants …