The performances on language and verbal memory tests of 26 right-hemisphere damaged
subjects (RHD) have been compared with normal controls and 11 non-aphasic left …

Eighty-one right-handed middle-aged subjects (64 non-brain-damaged and 17 right
hemisphere stroke) were assessed on a series of verbal comprehension and spoken …

Stroke in the language dominant hemisphere is the most frequent cause of aphasia. In the
course of post-stroke aphasia different mechanisms can contribute to the recovery of …

Background and Purpose—Functional neuroimaging studies have demonstrated right
inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) activation in poststroke aphasia. It remains unclear whether this …

Historically the study of neurologically based adult language disorders has focused on
aphasia, which in most individuals is a consequence of damage to the language-dominant …

We examined the role of the right cerebral hemisphere in the recovery from aphasia of HJ, a
50-year-old right-handed and unilingual man who suffered from severe aphasia caused by …

Humans are uniquely able to retrieve and combine words into syntactic structure to produce
connected speech. Previous identification of focal brain regions necessary for production …

OBJECTIVE: In 90% of normal subjects, the left hemisphere is dominant for language
function. We investigated whether congenital lesions of the left perisylvian regions altered …

Background and Purpose—The goal of this study was to develop a functional MRI (fMRI)
paradigm robust and reproducible enough in healthy subjects to be adapted for a follow-up …

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