Aims: This investigation sought to determine whether a structured intervention focused on
improving use of semantic associations could improve patients' ability to provide oral …

This intervention program addresses an important need in the clinical literature: tools for
remediation of communication deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage …

Objective: To improve oral interpretation of metaphors by patients with traumatic brain injury
(TBI). Design: Both single subject experimental design and group analysis. Setting: Patients' …

Metaphor comprehension was investigated in 50 right-hemisphere damaged (RHD) patients
and 38 control subjects in two experimental conditions: a visuo-verbal and a verbal test. In …

The relative contributions of the left and right hemispheres to the processing of metaphoric
language remains unresolved. Neuropsychological studies of brain-injured patients have …

Despite the prevalent and natural use of metaphor in everyday language, the neural basis of
this powerful communication device remains poorly understood. Early studies of brain …

Metaphor comprehension in right brain-damaged subjects with visuo-verbal and verbal material:
a dissociation (re) considered. IRIS IRIS Home Sfoglia Macrotipologie & tipologie Autore Titolo …

During lunch one afternoon in the fall of 1990, retired New York Times reporter AH Raskin
felt a strange sensation in his right arm and slowly slipped out of consciousness. When he …

LEFT hemisphere dominance for language (in right-handers) is the most wellestablished
instance of division of labour between the cerebral hemispheres (cf. Geschwind, 1970; …

Appreciation of metaphoric and nonmetaphoric alternative word meanings was assessed in
19 aphasic, left (LHD) and 15 non-aphasic, right (RHD) hemisphere brain-damaged stroke …