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

In three experiments, healthy young participants listened to stories promoting inferences and
named inference-related test words presented to the right visual field–Left Hemisphere (rvf …

Comprehending language in context requires inferencing, particularly for the establishment
of local coherence. In the neurolinguistic literature, an inference deficit after right …

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 …

This etymological definition can serve as a useful reminder of some facts that will concern
us. The first of these is that the meaning of a conversation does not follow simply from the …

The inferential reasoning ability of right hemisphere-damaged (RHD) patients was tested by
presenting pairs of sentences which were to be treated as single, integrated units. The two …

In this event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, participants
listened to and comprehended short stories implying or explicitly stating inference events …

The effects of delayed presentation of a central theme on the comprehension and
interpretation of narratives were investigated in adults with right and left hemisphere brain …

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 …

Discourse includes the production and comprehension of language in contexts that extend
beyond the literal meaning of individual words or sentences. Familiar examples include the …