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

Purpose Comprehension deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD)
have been attributed to an inability to use context, but there is little direct evidence to support …

Background: Impaired inferencing has been suggested to contribute to the comprehension
deficits exhibited by adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD); however, conflicting …

A lesion in the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) interferes with verbal communication, and
specifically with the semantic processing of words. However, the reported impairments of the …

Purpose This study examined the effect of fundamental frequency (F0) variation on the
intelligibility of speech in an alaryngeal talker who used an electrolarynx (EL). Method One …

24 THE NATURE AND IMPLICATIONS OF RIGHT HEMISPHERE LANGUAGE DISORDERS
Page 1 491 Historically, the study of neurologically-based language disorders has focused on …

Lexical semantics is concerned with the nature of word meaning, the semantic relations
between words, as well as the ways in which word meanings vary with the context in which …

Purpose This study examined right hemisphere (RH) neuroanatomical correlates of lexical–
semantic deficits that predict narrative comprehension in adults with RH brain damage …

Background: The nature, rate and pattern of recovery in bilingual persons following brain
damage has been investigated over many years but several controversies remain. Recent …

APPORT ESSENTIEL DES RESSOURCES COGNITIVES DE Page 137 CHAPITRE VI
CONCLUSIONS APPORT ESSENTIEL DES RESSOURCES COGNITIVES DE L’HÉMISPHÈRE …