Theory of Mind in adults with right hemisphere damage: What's the story?

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 65-72

  Weed, Ethan ^a,b,c   McGregor, William ^a   Feldbæk Nielsen, Jørgen ^b   Roepstorff, Andreas ^c   Frith, Uta ^c,d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Regionshospitalet Hammel Neurocenter   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Brain damage; Communication; Perceptual animacy; Pragmatics; Right hemisphere; Social cognition; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 77951498165     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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