Purpose The purpose of this review is to evaluate and summarize the research evidence
related to the treatment of individuals with right hemisphere communication disorders …

Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) rarely causes aphasias marked by clear and
widespread failures of comprehension or extreme difficulty producing fluent speech …

Purpose: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) commonly causes pragmatic language
disorders that are apparent in discourse production. Specific characteristics and approaches …

Purpose Discourse characteristics of adults with right hemisphere brain damage are similar
to those reported for healthy older adults, prompting the question of whether changes are …

Coarse coding is the activation of broad semantic fields that can include multiple word
meanings and a variety of features, including those peripheral to a word's core meaning. It is …

Right hemisphere damage impairs lexical processing, prosodic processing, and discourse
and pragmatics. Clinicians and researchers have observed that conversation is a …

Although predictive inference in reading has been extensively investigated with behavioral
paradigms, little is known about its neural substrates. Manipulating the likelihood that a …

A range of studies on language use suggests that there is a general contrast between two
kinds of discourse processing. Based on a review of these studies, which rest on a number …

Purpose To describe the current treatment research for communication (prosodic, discourse,
and pragmatic) deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage and to provide …

Damage to the right cerebral hemisphere (RHD) may cause a variety of disorders involving
communication, attention, and executive functions. Disorders commonly associated with …