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 it is common for descriptions of communication ability in people with right
hemisphere brain damage (RHBD) to include discourse deficits that affect pragmatic …

Background: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHBD) has been linked to a diverse range of
discourse-level communicative deficits generally based on subjective impressions …

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

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 …

Normal comprehension skill is linked with the proficiency of a suppression mechanism,
which functions to dampen mental activation that becomes irrelevant or inappropriate to a …

This study examines the effect of emotional content on the verbal pragmatic aspects of
discourse production in right-brain-damaged (RBD), left-brain-damaged (LBD), and normal …

This study examined the generality of a previous finding indicating that difficulty suppressing
or inhibiting context-inappropriate interpretations is an important predictor of narrative …

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 …

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