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Weed, Ethan; McGregor, William; Nielsen, Jorgen Feldbaek; Roepstorff, Andreas; Frith, Uta – Brain and Language, 2010
Why do people with right hemisphere damage (RHD) have difficulty with pragmatics and communication? One hypothesis has been that pragmatic impairment in RHD is the result of an underlying impairment in Theory of Mind (ToM): the ability to infer the mental states of others. In previous studies evaluating ToM abilities in people with RHD,…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cartoons, Geometric Concepts, Films
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Pell, Marc D. – Brain and Language, 2007
Although there is a strong link between the right hemisphere and understanding emotional prosody in speech, there are few data on how the right hemisphere is implicated for understanding the emotive "attitudes" of a speaker from prosody. This report describes two experiments which compared how listeners with and without focal right hemisphere…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Suprasegmentals, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing