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

In this review article, it is argued that the wide range of communicative deficits that have
been noted in both individuals with damage to the right cerebral hemisphere (RHD) and …

Dissociations between impairments in microlinguistic and macrolinguistic abilities were
examined in brain-damaged patients to assess whether these abilities are psychologically …

This paper summarizes the results of 11 separate studies of deaf children's performance on
standard tests of false belief understanding, the results of which combine to show that deaf …

SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal
entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses …

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 …

Pragmatic impairment1 is a term used in connection with individuals who experience
difficulties with language use. Rather than referring to a straightforward, unitary disorder, this …

This book is the outcome of over 25 years of research into neurolinguistic aspects of
bilingualism. It will therefore draw extensively on scattered previously published material …

Both cerebral hemispheres are involved in language processing, each playing a unique role
that may derive from differences in knowledge organization and on-line meaning integration …

This study examined the potential contribution of the right hemisphere to the communicative
impairments of autism. Pragmatic language measures sensitive to right-hemisphere damage …