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A linguistic deficit resulting from right-hemisphere damage

Schneiderman, E. I. and Saddy, J. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8501-6076 (1988) A linguistic deficit resulting from right-hemisphere damage. Brain and Language, 34 (1). pp. 38-53. ISSN 0093-934x

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/0093-934X(88)90123-X

Abstract/Summary

The ability of right-brain-damaged (RBD) subjects to correctly insert a word into a well-formed stimulus sentence was tested. Subjects also performed three evaluative tasks designed to establish their degree of general cognitive impairment. The performance of RBD subjects on these tasks was compared to that of left-brain-damaged (LBD) and non-brain-damaged (NBD) subjects. Although RBD subjects outperformed LBD subjects on the language-related evaluative tasks, the RBD group was significantly more impaired on a subset of the insertion task. This subset included items which required reassignment of the syntactic status of elements in the stimulus sentence in order for the insertion to be carried out. The results of this study permit refinement of the common characterization of RBD individuals as rigid in their interpretation of meaning and indicate right-hemisphere involvement in aspects of the grammar previously thought to be inaccessible to it.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
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Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN)
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
ID Code:72803
Publisher:Elsevier

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