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
narrative was analyzed, using a “propositional analysis,” in order to study amount as well as
nature of informative content. Results show (a) that RBD subjects' narratives contain a
smaller amount of information that did not appear to be related to a smaller amount of verbal
output or to the presence of a visual neglect,(b) that the information contained in RBD …