Objective To develop a clinically sensitive test of social perception for people with traumatic
brain injury (TBI). Design An assessment tool comprising videotaped vignettes and …

What makes human communication exceptional is the ability to grasp speaker's intentions
beyond what is said verbally. How the brain processes communicative functions is one of …

The basic idea behind this work is that communication is essentially a cooperative activity
between two or more people in which the meanings of each transaction are constructed by …

A fundamental definitional problem is examined for humor and irony wherein in neither case
can the subclasses of these phenomena be kept distinct. This indeterminacy is reduced to …

Thirty-four adults with severe traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and 34 matched control
participants were asked to interpret videotaped conversational exchanges. Study …

Impaired theory of mind (ToM) reasoning is considered an underlying cause of social
cognition deficits in patients with acquired brain injury (ABI). However, the literature does not …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

Two experiments test a graded salience account of irony processing (Giora, Fein, &
Schwartz, 1998). Experiment 1 shows that, as predicted, less familiar targets embedded in …

The specific contribution of focal damage of the prefrontal cortex and the cognitive
mechanisms accounting for communicative-pragmatic disorders remains unclear. The …

Participants with unilateral anterior or posterior lesions were compared to a healthy group
on a theory of mind-type task that involved explaining the words or actions of story …