This study examined the effects of right brain-damage (RBD) on oral discourse production
using a multi-layered discourse processing model. Narrative and procedural discourse …

Although the term 'nonverbal'is often applied to the right cerebral hemisphere (RH), a
growing body of work indicates that the RH can comprehend language and, indeed, that it …

A story comprehension task was specifically developed for the clinical diagnosis of text
comprehension deficits. The performance of 49 healthy control participants on qualitatively …

In this theoretical review we bridge the cognitive and neurobiological sciences to shed light
on the neurocognitive foundations of the semantic priming effect in schizophrenia. We …

In ordinary conversations, literal meanings of an utterance are often quite different from
implicated meanings and the inference about implicated meanings is essentially required for …

Cortical activity associated with generating an inference was measured using fMRI.
Participants read three‐sentence passages that differed in whether or not an inference …

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of contextual constraint on
lexical ambiguity resolution in the cerebral hemispheres. A cross-modal priming variant of …

This study used fMRI to examine individual differences in the neural basis of causal
inferencing. Participants with varying language skill levels, as indexed by scores on the …

Comprehending language in context requires inferencing, particularly for the establishment
of local coherence. In the neurolinguistic literature, an inference deficit after right …

Horrobin (2001) has proposed that phospholipid metabolism is linked to human brain
growth, and that deviations in the metabolism may be linked to creativity as well as mental …