[Use of discourse in neuropsychological examinations]

The study was conducted to establish the ability of aphatics and patients with lesions in the right cerebral hemisphere to reconstruct the superstructure of narrative discourse and procedural discourse. It was found that despite evident speech disturbances the patients with aphasia maintained the ability of correct reconstruction of the basic elements of a discourse, while patients with right hemisphere lesions had difficulties in correct construction of the structure of the text evidencing specific disturbances of discourse.