Idiosyncratic word associations following right hemisphere damage.
Publication/Presentation Date
9-1-1991
Abstract
Single oral word associations produced by right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) stroke patients and age-matched healthy controls were analyzed to assess the right-hemisphere contribution to lexical-semantic processes. RHD patients did not differ from normals in terms of response times, in syntactic class of the response word, or in numbers of errors in response to words drawn from different grammatical categories and words differing in imageability/concreteness. Groups also did not differ in the number of high frequency, popular, associations produced. Despite their apparently intact ability to access high-frequency lexical associates, RHD patients, particularly those with frontal-lobe lesions, also sporadically produced lexical responses that were idiosyncratically related or that were totally unrelated to the stimulus word. An attentional disorder is suggested to explain these pragmatically deviant lexical associations.
Volume
13
Issue
5
First Page
703
Last Page
710
ISSN
1380-3395
Published In/Presented At
Glosser, G., & Goodglass, H. (1991). Idiosyncratic word associations following right hemisphere damage. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 13(5), 703–710. https://doi.org/10.1080/01688639108401084
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Psychiatry
PubMedID
1955526
Department(s)
Department of Psychiatry
Document Type
Article