Background: This manuscript reports the initial phase of testing for a novel,“Contextual
constraint” treatment, designed to stimulate inefficient language comprehension processes …

Background: This manuscript reports generalisation effects of Contextual Constraint
Treatment for an adult with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Contextual Constraint …

Language comprehension deficits in adults with focal right hemisphere brain damage (RHD)
can cause considerable social handicap. To date, however, treatment for these deficits …

Coarse coding is the activation of broad semantic fields that can include multiple word
meanings and a variety of features, including those peripheral to a word's core meaning. It is …

Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension
difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic …

This article reviews and evaluates leading accounts of narrative comprehension deficits in
adults with focal damage to the right cerebral hemisphere (RHD). It begins with a discussion …

Background: Comprehension deficits that typify adults with right brain damage (RBD) have
been linked to considerations of processing capacity and processing demands, as well as to …

This study examined the generality of a previous finding indicating that difficulty suppressing
or inhibiting context-inappropriate interpretations is an important predictor of narrative …

Normal comprehension skill is linked with the proficiency of a suppression mechanism,
which functions to dampen mental activation that becomes irrelevant or inappropriate to a …

Background: The right cerebral hemisphere (RH) sustains activation of subordinate,
secondary, less common, and/or distantly related meanings of words. Much of the pertinent …