Differences in linguistic cohesion within the first year following right and left hemisphere lesions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Characterizing productive language deficits following lesions to the right (RH) or left hemispheres (LH) is valuable in identifying appropriate therapeutic goals. While damage to the LH classically is associated with deficits in language, RH lesions also result in changed communication beyond prosody due to cognitive-linguistic effects. Cohesion, reference to introduced content across sentences within discourse, relies on a listener's clear and unambiguous understanding that a reference has occurred. To date, we are not aware of any prior work that has compared patterns of cohesive strategy between RH and LH lesioned individuals with cohesion deficits.

Aims

The purpose of the present study is to determine whether individuals with communication deficits following R

SUBMITTER: Stockbridge MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7953865 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature