Stories are used extensively for human communication; both the comprehension and
production of oral and written narratives constitute a fundamental part of our experience …

After listening to multiple-episode stories that promoted coherence inferences, right
hemisphere-damaged patients answered Inference questions about the stories less …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

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 …

Dissociations between impairments in microlinguistic and macrolinguistic abilities were
examined in brain-damaged patients to assess whether these abilities are psychologically …

This chapter proposes that a unique mode of semantic processing by the right hemisphere
(RH) underlies many of its contributions to discourse comprehension (reviewed here and in …

Numerous theories discuss the neuropsychological functions of the frontal lobes, most
based on some concept of supramodality, and an extensive literature presents the …

Appreciation of metaphoric and nonmetaphoric alternative word meanings was assessed in
19 aphasic, left (LHD) and 15 non-aphasic, right (RHD) hemisphere brain-damaged stroke …

The ability to interpret conversational utterances was assessed in a group of 12 male
patients with unilateral right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) and 12 non-brain-damaged …

A standard rule-based system was used to evaluate the presence, accuracy, and
completeness of main concepts in the connected speech of 20 non-brain-damaged adults …