Inference Generation During Text Comprehension by Adults With Right Hemisphere Brain Damage: Activation Failure Versus Multiple Activation.

Evidence conflicts as to whether adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) generate inferences during text comprehension. M. Beeman (1993) reported that adults with RHD fail to activate the lexical-semantic bases of routine bridging inferences, which are necessary for comprehension. But other...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1380 - 1396
Main Authors:	Tompkins, Connie A., Fassbinder, Wiltrud, Blake, Margaret Lehman
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dec2004
Subjects:	Reading comprehension Inference (Logic) Brain function localization Brain damage > Patients Psychology
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