In response to uncovering brain mechanisms underlying vocal communication and
searching for biomarkers for mental illnesses, speech prosody has been increasingly …

Soldiers with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) present with an array of neuropsychiatric
symptoms that can be grouped into nosological clusters:(1) cognitive dysfunctions …

The basic idea behind this work is that communication is essentially a cooperative activity
between two or more people in which the meanings of each transaction are constructed by …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

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 …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can seriously disrupt the social and communication skills that
are basic requirements for everyday life. It is the loss of these interpersonal skills that can be …

Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often show impaired linguistic and/or narrative
abilities. The present study aimed to document the features of narrative discourse …

Previous research has shown that communicative-pragmatic ability, as well as executive
functions (EF) and Theory of Mind (ToM), may be impaired in individuals with traumatic brain …

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship among age, first-and second-order
Theory of Mind and the increasing ability of children to understand and produce different …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the pragmatic abilities of patients with
schizophrenia in a variety of pragmatic phenomena expressed through different …