Memory and Encoding of Spoken Discourse Following Right Hemisphere Damage: Evidence from the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) Technique

Neurological Origins of Poor Reading Comprehension Despite Fast Word Decoding?

“…In the same vein, the decoding-better-than-comprehension pattern might be accounted for in terms of such neurological deficits. Beeman (1993), for example, demonstrated that in listening to multiple-episode stories, right hemisphere damaged patients were less able to draw inferences than normal elderly people (see also Titone et al, 2001). If the right hemisphere is necessary for drawing inferences, hydrocephalic children with corpus callosum anomalies would have difficulty processing the inferences which the right hemisphere made.…”

Evaluation of Selected Auditory Tests in School-Age Children Suspected of Auditory Processing Disorders

“…Presenting stimuli in a background of noise is a good way to degrade the stimuli (Bronkhorst & Plomp, 1989) and offers the added benefit that in this form the test reflects the real-world requirements of having to understand speech in other than ideal conditions. Other methods of degrading speech that have been used in APD evaluation include reverberant speech (Halling & Hume, 2000), accelerated speech (Titone, Wingfield, Caplan, Waters, & Prentice, 2001), or filtered speech (Bocca, Calearo, Cassinari & Migliavacca, 1955). An effective alternative to degradation of the stimulus is achieved by increasing the task difficulty.…”

Clinical Focus on Prosodic, Discursive and Pragmatic Treatment for Right Hemisphere Damaged Adults: What's Right?

“…Moreover, in a conversational discourse, some RHD individuals have difficulties sharing the responsibility to develop and maintain adequately the exchange with the speaker [51]. On the receptive side, they might have difficulties retelling a story as a whole [52]. Again, the complexity (e.g., inferences, absence of title, conversation in natural context, etc.)…”