Parallel lines of investigation have developed into non-aphasic language disorders
following frontal lobe (FL) injury and right (non-dominant) hemisphere (RH) lesions. In this …

The narrative skills of nonaphasic individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD) were
compared with those of a group of healthy participants. All participants scored within the …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the brain–behavior relations and clinical
symptomatology related to word-finding deficits in aphasia. Aphasia is a general term for a …

Numerous theories discuss the neuropsychological functions of the frontal lobes, most
based on some concept of supramodality, and an extensive literature presents the …

Frontal lobe dysfunction has a pervasive compromising effect on many aspects of
neuropsychological abilities including attention, language, verbal and non-verbal fluency …

ABSTRACTS The evidence of lexical‐semantic deficits following right, non‐language‐
dominant hemisphere injury was assessed using word (or verbal) fluency tests. Two groups …

ABSTRACT A set of tests was developed to examine areas of language previously
described as involving right hemisphere processing. These tests were constructed to be …

This paper is a version of a conference keynote that was intended to provoke a collective
debate about some of the issues concerning the effects of right brain damage (RBD) on the …

A lesion in the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) interferes with verbal communication, and
specifically with the semantic processing of words. However, the reported impairments of the …

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