Right Hemisphere Brain Damage in Children

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Doris A. Trauner
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Cognitive Profile ◽  
Spatial Skills ◽  
Affective Prosody ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Focal Injury ◽  
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

Abstract Adults with right hemisphere (RH) damage have a characteristic cognitive profile of impaired facial recognition and visual spatial skills, contralateral neglect, and aprosodia, with relatively intact propositional language. The adverse effects of childhood RH damage are more subtle and do not follow the adult pattern following RH injury. This article reviews evidence that the RH is specialized early in life for certain cognitive functions, including comprehension of affective prosody and visual spatial analysis. Other cognitive functions such as facial recognition, language, and expressive prosody appear to have more bilateral representation during early development. There is also strong evidence for plasticity in the developing RH that allows reorganization to take place following focal injury. Such differences in neural networks during development may account for the good functional recovery in children with perinatal RH brain damage.

scholarly journals Understanding Others Requires Right Temporoparietal and Inferior Frontal Regions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Schnur ◽  
Junhua Ding ◽  
Margaret Blake
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Lesion Symptom Mapping ◽  
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage ◽  
Acute Patients ◽  
Long Term Studies

The human ability to infer other people's knowledge and beliefs, known as 'theory of mind', is an essential component of social interactions. Theory of mind tasks activate frontal and temporoparietal regions of cortex in fMRI studies. However, it is unknown whether these regions are critical. We examined this question using multivariate voxel-based lesion symptom mapping in 22 patients with acute right hemisphere brain damage. Studies of acute patients eliminate questions of recovery and reorganization that plague long-term studies of lesioned patients. Damage to temporoparietal and inferior frontal regions impaired thinking about others' perspectives. This impairment held even after adjustment for overall extent of brain damage and language comprehension, memory, comprehension, and attention abilities. These results provide evidence that right temporoparietal and inferior frontal regions are necessary for the human ability to reason about the knowledge and beliefs of others.

Functional Outcome Assessment of Adults with Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 303-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie Tompkins ◽  
Margaret Lehman ◽  
Amy Wyatt ◽  
Richard Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Functional Outcome ◽  
Outcome Assessment ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

Behavioural and electrophysiological measures of auditory attention in right hemisphere brain damage

Aphasiology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 831-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Strauss Hough ◽  
Gregg D. Givens ◽  
Jerry L. Cranford ◽  
Renee C. Downs
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Auditory Attention ◽  
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

Maintenance of activation for subordinate semantic features of nouns after right hemisphere brain damage in adults

2006 ◽  
Vol 99 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
Connie A. Tompkins ◽  
Wiltrud Fassbinder ◽  
Victoria L. Scharp ◽  
Kimberly Meigh
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

Predictive Inferencing in Adults With Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 639-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret T. Lehman-Blake ◽  
Connie A. Tompkins
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Auditory Comprehension ◽  
Discourse Comprehension ◽  
Inference Generation ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Right Hemisphere Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage ◽  
Better Than

Predictive inferencing was evaluated in 13 adults with right hemisphere damage (RHD) and 11 adults without brain damage (NBD). Brief narrative stimuli that strongly suggested a single outcome were constructed to vary recency of mention of inference-related information. Reading times were recorded for narrative-final sentences that disconfirmed the target inferences. Slowed reading time on the final sentences was an indicator of inference generation. Adults with RHD generated target predictive inferences in contexts with recent mention of strongly biasing inference-related information. This group also evidenced maintenance of inferences over time, but to a lesser degree than participants in the NBD group. Overall, individuals with better auditory comprehension or larger estimated working memory capacity tended to maintain inferences better than did the other participants. The results are discussed in relation to current hypotheses of inferencing and discourse comprehension in adults with RHD.

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