To evaluate the relative role of left and right hemispheres (RH) and describe the functional
anatomy of RH during ortholinguistic tasks, we re-analyzed the 128 papers of a former left …

Objective To develop a clinically sensitive test of social perception for people with traumatic
brain injury (TBI). Design An assessment tool comprising videotaped vignettes and …

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them.
After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's …

Research has suggested that the core handicaps of autism result from a specific impairment
in theory of mind (ToM). However, this account has been challenged by the finding that a …

My goal in writing this book has been to convey the principles and issues of
psycholinguistics in a straightforward and accessible manner. The field, although principally …

Is" right-brain" thought essentially creative, and" left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige
argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive …

Background Developmental psychology is a vibrant and rapidly growing field of psychology
that seems, with each passing year, to become more and more exciting, comprehensive …

Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to
fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for …

In this cross-population study, we use narratives as a context to investigate language
development in children from 4 to 12 years of age from three experimental groups: children …

The ability to attribute thoughts and feelings to self and others (theory of mind') has been
hypothesised to have an innate neural basis and a dedicated cognitive mechanism …