Tompkins, C. A. and Baumgaertner, A. and Lehman, M. T. and Fossett, T. R. D. (1997) Suppression and discourse comprehension in right brain-damaged adults: A preliminary report. [Journal (Paginated)]
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Abstract
Eighteen right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and 15 control subjects listened to sentences that ended in lexical ambiguities. The sentence verbs biased ambiguity interpretation. Probe words, representing unbiased meanings of the ambiguities, were presented for rapid judgements of their fit with the sentences. In rejecting probe words, both groups showed interference from unbiased meanings of the ambiguities at a short (175 ms) probe interval. Only RHD adults demonstrated interference 1000 ms after sentence offset, indicating that they suppressed contextually inappropriate meanings less effectively than control subjects. Discourse comprehension performance in RHD adults was also correlated with suppression. Theoretical and clinical implications are considered.
| Item Type: | Journal (Paginated) |
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| Additional Information: | Copyright by Taylor & Francis Ltd. Used with permission. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | NORMALLY AGING ADULTS; RIGHT-HEMISPHERE; SENTENCE COMPREHENSION; CONTEXT; APPRECIATION; KNOWLEDGE; REQUESTS; ACCESS; SKILL |
| Depositing User: | Demetrios Ioannides |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2003 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2016 15:13 |
| Conference: | Clinical Aphasiology Conference > Clinical Aphasiology Conference (1996 : 26th : Newport, RI : June 1996) |
| Conference Date: | June 1996 |
| Location: | Newport, R.I. |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Aphasiology |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Number: | 4-5 |
| Publication Location: | London |
| ISSN: | 1464-5041 |
| URI: | http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/id/eprint/1115 |
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