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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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

Eighteen right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and 15 control subjects listened to sentences
that ended in lexical ambiguities. The sentence verbs biased ambiguity interpretation. Probe …

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

The ability to make inferences for the purposes of comprehension is considered an
important factor in pragmatic ability. In this experimental group study with stroke patients, the …

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

Background: A great deal of research suggests that both the left hemisphere (LH) and right
hemisphere (RH) contribute to the resolution of lexically ambiguous words. If this is indeed …