This article examines several factors that influence the production of requests for behavior.
Using a role-play methodology, we elicited request productions from well-recovered patients …

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

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 …

Background: In a previous report of topic use in semi-structured conversations (Brady,
Mackenzie, & Armstrong, 2003), we did not find the often-described gross topic deficit in …

Background: It is estimated that approximately 50% of individuals who incur right‐
hemisphere damage (RHD) have subsequent communication disorders. Lexical‐semantic …

This study investigated the impact of right cerebral hemisphere damage on the capacity to
take shared responsibility for the development of an intentional structure in conversation …

Background Right hemisphere communication disorders are neither consistently labelled
nor adequately defined. Labels associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) are …

Despite the well documented pragmatic deficits that can arise subsequent to Right
Hemisphere Brain Damage (RHBD), few researchers have directly studied everyday …

Thirty-six right-brain-damaged (RBD) right-handers and 20 controls (C) were submitted to a
narrative production task using the pictorial representation of a trivial story. Each subject's …

While left hemisphere damage (LHD) has been clearly shown to cause a range of language
impairments, patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) also exhibit communication …