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 …

To participate meaningfully in conversation, speakers must be sensitive to statements which
advance and those which block the direction of a discourse. The effect of right-hemisphere …

Research on the conversation of subjects with right hemisphere damage has hitherto used
tasks too far removed from natural communication. Referential communication is proposed …

Understanding utterances in conversations requires a listener to weight the disparate pieces
of information present in a discourse. In this study, we examined how right hemisphere brain …

Patients with right hemisphere (RHD) or left hemisphere brain damage (LHD) were tested
on Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks presented with visual aids that illustrated the relevant …

Two experiments in which 2 closed-head-injured (CHI) subjects and 12 non-brain-damaged
control subjects took part investigated the capacity to comprehend indirect speech acts. In …

The occurrence of a right-hemisphere lesion can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and
particularly with the processing of non-literal speech acts in which the listener has to identify …

Right-hemisphere brain damaged (RHD) patients and a normal control group were tested
for their ability to infer first-and second-order mental states and to understand the …

Verbal pragmatic aspects of discourse production were examined in 16 right brain-damaged
(RBD), 16 left brain-damaged (LBD), and 16 normal control right-handed adults. The …

To secure information on which aspects of linguistic functioning might be mediated by the
nondominant hemisphere, a test battery assessing sensitivity to narrational and humorous …