Abstract：
:This study investigated the ability of right brain-damaged individuals (RBD) to use contextual information to resolve ambiguous pronouns. Subjects were presented with sentence pairs and required to resolve the ambiguous pronoun in the second sentence. Contrary to the prevailing view that RBD patients have difficulty using contextual information to integrate language, the RBD group demonstrated a normal pattern of response, demonstrating a sensitivity to the pragmatic information contained in the leading sentence. They responded more quickly to sentences with a pragmatically constrained preferred referent than to those sentences for which there was no preferred referent. As well, they chose the preferred referent significantly more often than the non-preferred referent. These results suggest that RBD patients can use contextual information at the level of a minimal discourse (i.e., two sentences).
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Leonard CL,Waters GS,Caplan Ddoi
10.1006/brln.1997.1744subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-05-01 00:00:00pages
343-59issue
3eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(97)91744-2journal_volume
57pub_type
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