Research investigating pragmatic deficits in individuals with right hemisphere damage
focuses on identifying the potential mechanisms responsible for the nature of these …

Pragmatic communication abilities refer to the capacity to use language in a social context.
Despite evidence to the contrary, the left cerebral hemisphere of the majority of right handers …

Right hemisphere damage (RHD) following unilateral stroke is often associated with
impairment of pragmatic language, specifically, the ability to comprehend inferences that …

The occurrence of a right-hemisphere lesion can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and
particularly with the processing of non-literal speech acts in which the listener has to identify …

Patients with right hemisphere (RHD) or left hemisphere brain damage (LHD) were tested
on Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks presented with visual aids that illustrated the relevant …

Acquired language disorders after stroke are strongly associated with left hemisphere
damage. When language difficulties are observed in the context of right hemisphere strokes …

Formal and functional approaches to pragmatics are based upon different assumptions
about the nature of the language system. This paper examines these approaches to …

Background: Pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts
that provides accurate interpretation of intentions. The occurrence of the right hemisphere …

Objectives: The aim of this systematic review was to identify the presence and nature of
relationships between specific forms of aprosodia (ie, expressive and receptive emotional …

The aim of the present study is to compare the pragmatic ability of right-and left-hemisphere-
damaged patients excluding the possible interference of linguistic deficits. To this aim, we …