Cl. Leonard et al., THE USE OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION BY RIGHT BRAIN-DAMAGED INDIVIDUALS IN THE RESOLUTION OF AMBIGUOUS PRONOUNS, Brain and language, 57(3), 1997, pp. 309-342
Citations number
70
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics","Psychology, Experimental",Neurosciences
Two experiments were conducted with the primary purpose of investigati
ng the ability of right brain-damaged (RED) individuals to use context
ual information-at the level of the single sentence, in terms of the i
ntegration of information between clauses, and at the level of a minim
al discourse (i.e., two sentences)-in the resolution of ambiguous pron
ouns. The investigation was extended to a group of left brain-damaged
(LED) and non-brain-damaged (NBD) individuals. Contrary to the prevail
ing view that RED patients have difficulty in the use of contextual in
formation to process language, both experiments were consistent in dem
onstrating that the RED group was influenced by contextual information
in a manner similar to that demonstrated by both the LED and NBD grou
ps. (C) 1997 Academic Press.