Comprehension of familiar phrases by left- but not by right-hemisphere damaged patients

Diana Roupas Van Lancker; Daniel Kempler

doi:10.1016/0093-934X(87)90128-3

Comprehension of familiar phrases by left- but not by right-hemisphere damaged patients

Diana Roupas Van Lancker, Daniel Kempler

Communicative Sciences and Disorders

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Single words, familiar phrases (idioms and speech formulas), and novel sentences (matched to the familiar phrases in length, frequency, and structure) were selected for a picture-matching auditory comprehension task and administered to left- and right-brain damaged (LBD, RBD) subjects. The groups did not differ in single word comprehension. A 2 × 2 ANOVA revealed opposite patterns on the two other tasks, with LBD subjects performing worse on novel than familiar phrases, and RBD subject impaired on familiar phrase but not on novel sentence comprehension. The role of grammatical/referential vs. holistic/inferential meaning in left and right hemisphere function is discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	265-277
Number of pages	13
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	32
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0093-934X(87)90128-3
State	Published - Nov 1987

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Speech and Hearing
Cognitive Neuroscience
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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