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OCLC number
892487534
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Author
Leonard, Carol,
Title
The use of contextual information by right brain-damaged individuals in the resolution of ambiguous pronouns
Degree
Ph. D. -- McGill University, 1994
Publisher
[Montreal] : McGill University Libraries, [1994]
Description
1 online resource
Notes
Thesis supervisor: Waters, Gloria (advisor).
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
"Three experiments were conducted with the primary purpose of investigating the ability of right brain-damaged (RBD) individuals to use contextual information--at the level of the single sentence, in terms of the integration of information between clauses, and at the level of a minimal discourse (i.e. two sentences)--in the resolution of ambiguous pronouns. The investigation was extended to a group of left brain-damaged (LBD) and non brain-damaged (NBD) individuals. Four additional studies investigated and found no age effects in the use of contextual information in pronoun resolution. The results of the experiments with brain-damaged subjects were contrary to initial expectations. All three experiments were consistent in demonstrating that the RBD group was influenced by contextual information in a manner similar to that demonstrated by both the LBD and NBD groups. The results are discussed in terms of the distinction between automatic and effortful processing."--
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digitool.library.mcgill.ca:8881
escholarship.mcgill.ca
escholarship.mcgill.ca
Subject
Health Sciences, Speech Pathology.
Psychology, Psychobiology.
Language, Linguistics.