Neuropragmatics: Disorders and Neural Systems

Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 175-188

  Stemmer, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882930642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045352-1.00017-3     Document Type: Chapter

References (44)

1. Amodio D.M., Frith C.D. Meeting of minds: The medial frontal cortex and social cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2006, 7:268-277.
2. Ash S., Moore P., Antani B.S., McCawley G., Work M., Grossman M. Trying to tell a tale. Discourse impairments in progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2006, 66:1405-1413.
3. Beer J.S., Ochsner K.N. Social cognition: A multi level analysis. Brain Research 2006, 1079:98-105.
4. Brady M., Armstrong L., Mackenzie C. Further evidence on topic use following right hemisphere brain damage: Procedural and descriptive discourse. Aphasiology 2005, 19(8):731-747.
5. Brownell, H.H., & Martino, G. (1998). Deficits in inference and social cognition. The effects of right hemisphere brain damage on discourse. In M. Beeman, & C. Chiarello (Eds.), Right hemisphere language comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience (pp. 309-328). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
6. Champagne Lavau M., Stip E., Joanette Y. Social cognition deficit in schizophrenia: Accounting for pragmatic deficits in communication abilities?. Current Psychiatry Reviews 2006, 2:309-315.
7. Chapman S.B., Highley A.P., Thompson J.L. Discourse in fluent aphasia and Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neurolinguistics 1998, 11:55-78.
8. Corcoran R. Inductive reasoning and the understanding of intention in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 2003, 8(3):223-235.
9. Corcoran R., Cahill C., Frith C.D. The appreciation of visual jokes in people with schizophrenia: A study of "mentalizing" ability. Schizophrenia Research 1997, 24:319-327.
10. Coulson S., van Petten C. A special role for the right hemisphere in metaphor comprehension? ERP evidence from hemifield presentation. Brain Research 2007, 1146:128-145.
11. Drury V.M., Robinson E.J., Birchwood M. "Theory of mind" skills during an acute episode of psychosis and following recovery. Psychological Medicine 1998, 28:1101-1112.
12. Eviatar Z., Just M.A. Brain correlates of discourse processing: An fMRI investigation of irony and conventional metaphor comprehension. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:2348-2359.
13. Faust M., Mashal N. The role of the right cerebral hemisphere in processing novel metaphoric expressions taken from poetry: A divided visual field study. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45:860-870.
14. Goel V., Dolan R.J. The functional anatomy of humor: Segregating cognitive and affective components. Nature Neuroscience 2001, 4(3):237-238.
15. Gregory C., Lough S., Stone V., Erzinclioglu S., Martin L., Baron-Cohen S., Hodges J.R. Theory of mind in patients with frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Theoretical and practical implications. Brain 2002, 125(4):752-764.
16. Happé F., Brownell H., Winner E. Acquired "theory of mind" impairments following stroke. Cognition 1999, 70:211-240.
17. Lee K.H., Farrow T.F.D., Spence S.A., Woodruff P.W.R. Social cognition, brain networks and schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine 2004, 34:391-400.
18. Leudar I., Costall A., Francis D. Theory of mind: A critical assessment. Theory and Psychology 2004, 14(5):571-578.
19. Lough S., Kipps C.M., Treise C., Watson P., Blair J.R., Hodges J.R. Social reasoning, emotion and empathy in frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44:950-958.
20. Martin I., McDonald S. Weak coherence, no theory of mind, or executive dysfunction? Solving the puzzle of pragmatic language disorders. Brain and Language 2003, 85(3):451-466.
21. Mashal N., Faust M., Hendler T. The role of the right hemisphere in processing nonsalient metaphorical meanings: Application of principal components analysis to fMRI data. Neuropsychologia 2005, 43:2084-2100.
22. McCabe R. On the inadequacies of theory of mind explanations of schizophrenia. Alternative accounts of alternative problems. Theory and Psychology 2004, 14(5):738-752.
23. McDonald S. Exploring the process of inference generation in sarcasm: A review of normal and clinical studies. Brain and Language 1999, 68:486-506.
24. McDonald S. Exploring the cognitive basis of right-hemisphere pragmatic language disorders. Brain and Language 2000, 75:82-107.
25. Meilijson S.R., Kasher A., Elizur A. Language performance in chronic schizophrenia: A pragmatic approach. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 2004, 47:695-713.
26. Mitchell R.L.C., Crow T.J. Right hemisphere language functions and schizophrenia: The forgotten hemisphere?. Brain 2005, 128:963-978.
27. Myers P. Profiles of communication deficits in patients with right cerebral hemisphere damage: Implications for diagnosis and treatment. Aphasiology 2005, 19:1147-1160.
28. Oliveri M., Romero L., Papagno C. Left but not right temporal involvement in opaque idiom comprehension: A repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2004, 16(5):848-855.
29. Papagno C. Comprehension of metaphors and idioms in patients with Alzheimer's disease. A longitudinal study. Brain 2001, 124:1450-1460.
30. Rapp A.M., Leube D.T., Erb M., Grodd W., Kircher T.T.J. Neural correlates of metaphor processing. Cognitive Brain Research 2004, 20:395-402.
31. Shamay-Tsoory S.G., Aharon-Peretz J., Levkovitz Y. The neuroanatomical basis of affective mentalizing in schizophrenia: Comparison of patients with schizophrenia and patients with localized prefrontal lesions. Schizophrenia Research 2007, 90:274-283.
32. Shammi P., Stuss D. Humour appreciation: A role of the right frontal lobe. Brain 1999, 122:657-666.
33. Siegal M., Varley R. Neural systems involved in "theory of mind". Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2002, 3:463-471.
34. Snowden J.S., Gibbons Z.C., Blackshaw A., Doubleday E., Thompson J., Craufurd D., Foster J., Happé F., Nearly D. Social cognition in frontotemporal dementia and Huntington's disease. Neuropsychologia 2003, 41:688-701.
35. Stemmer, B. (2008). Neuropragmatics. In M.J. Ball, M. Perkins, N. Mueller, & S. Howard (Ed.), Handbook of clinical linguistics (pp. 61-78). Oxford: Blackwell.
36. Stemmer B., Cohen H. Neuropragmatique et lésions de l'hémisphère droit. Psychologie de l'Interaction 2002, 13(14):15-46.
37. Stuss D.T., Alexander M.P. Executive functions and the frontal lobes: A conceptual view. Psychological Research 2000, 63:289-298.
38. Stuss D.T., Gallup G.G., Alexander M.P. The frontal lobes are necessary for "theory of mind". Brain 2001, 124:279-286.
39. Verdon C.-M., Fossati P., Verny M., Dieudonné B., Teillet L., Nadel J. Social cognition: An early impairment in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders 2007, 21(1):25-30.
40. Winner E., Brownell H., Happé F., Blum A., Pincus D. Distinguishing lies from jokes: Theory of mind deficits and discourse interpretation in right hemisphere brain-damaged patients. Brain and Language 1998, 62:89-106.
41. Wright, H.H., & Newhoff, M. (2005). Pragmatics. In L.L. LaPointe (Ed.), Aphasia and related neurogenic language disorders (pp. 237-248). New York: Thieme.
42. Mason, R.A., & Just, M.A. (2006). Neuroimaging contributions to the understanding of discourse processes. In M. Traxler & M. A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 765-799). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
43. Ferstl E.C. The functional neuroanatomy of text comprehension: What's the story so far?. Higher level language processes in the brain: Inference and comprehension processes 1998, 53-102. Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, Both chapters discuss the neural systems implicated in discourse processing. Although the interpretation of the correlation between behavioral and neuroimaging do not always coincide and are, at times, disputable, the chapters provides a basis for further evaluation, verification and discussion. F. Schmalhofer, C.A. Perfetti (Eds.).
44. Stuss D., Knight R. Principles of frontal lobe function 2002, Oxford University Press, Oxford, The collection of articles provides an excellent summary on the different aspects of frontal lobe functions - from a theoretical as well as clinical perspective.