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Sensitivity to conversational deviance in right-hemisphere-damaged patients.

A Rehak1, J A Kaplan, H Gardner

  • 1Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA.

Brain and Language
|February 1, 1992
PubMed
Summary

Individuals with right-hemisphere damage (RHD) struggle to understand conversational blockers, like tangential remarks, impacting discourse comprehension. They perform normally in directed conversations but falter when discourse is intentionally blocked.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Meaningful conversation requires sensitivity to discourse-advancing and blocking statements.
  • Right-hemisphere damage (RHD) can impact cognitive functions, including those crucial for social communication.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of right-hemisphere damage (RHD) on individuals' sensitivity to conversational advancers and blockers.
  • To determine how RHD affects the interpretation of normal versus intentionally blocked conversations.

Main Methods:

  • Subjects with RHD and control participants interpreted normal conversations.
  • Subjects also interpreted conversations containing blocking statements, specifically tangential and redundant remarks violating Gricean maxims.

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Main Results:

  • Right-hemisphere damage patients demonstrated normal function in canonical, directed conversations.
  • However, RHD patients exhibited significant difficulty in interpreting and judging the impact of blocking statements, especially tangential ones.

Conclusions:

  • Right-hemisphere damage impairs the ability to detect and understand conversational disruptions.
  • A mental model of directed conversation, encompassing structural and affective elements, is proposed to explain these findings.