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Peer reviewedBloom, Ronald L.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study examined the effect of emotional content on the verbal pragmatic aspects of discourse production in right-brain-damaged (RBD), left-brain-damaged (LBD), and normal control adults. In the nonemotional conditions, LBDs were particularly impaired in pragmatics, whereas in the emotional condition, RBDs demonstrated pragmatic deficits.…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
