Background: The field of pragmatic impairments of verbal communication in cerebrally
damaged subjects dates back almost three decades. However, a systematic investigation of …

Clinical neurolinguistics still lacks consolidated and standardised tools for the assessment of
impairments of pragmatics of verbal communication. In the present paper we present norms …

The aim of the present study is to compare the pragmatic ability of right-and left-hemisphere-
damaged patients excluding the possible interference of linguistic deficits. To this aim, we …

Recent advances in the field of communication sciences have led to the description of
acquired communication disorders affecting pragmatic skills in patients with brain damage …

Background Behavioural and neuropsychological studies on elderly populations
concentrate on many aspects of cognitive functioning, but significantly less research …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

We explored the relationship between language impairment and pragmatic performance in
aphasic adults during the first 48 weeks postonset. Twenty patients, ten fluent and ten …

Aim of the present study is to provide a multifocal assessment of pragmatic abilities in
patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD). Pragmatics refers to the ability to use …

Abstract The Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) was introduced to evaluate
pragmatic abilities in patients with cerebral lesions. The battery is organized into five …

The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility that some normal age-related
changes in aspects of conversational discourse could account for the recurrent finding in …