摘要：Lesion studies suggest that right hemisphere-dependent mechanisms are particularly involved with the comprehension of discursive aspects of language such as drawing inferences (Beeman, 1993), relating story events, deriving the gist or theme of a story read or listened to (Hough, 1990), among others. So, comprehension difficulties experienced by right-hemisphere-brain-damaged (RHBD) individuals indicate that comprehending complex discourse aspects may require an intact RH (Joanette et al., 1986). However, literature on neuroimaging of discourse comprehension remains controversial: some studies show a specific role of the right hemisphere for discourse processing (Lillywhite et al., 2010), whereas others do not (Martin-Loeches et al., 2008). Due to its complexity, narrative discourse processing has the potential to offer important evidence for our understanding of the cerebral dynamics for language comprehension by RHBD readers. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of an individual with a lesion in the RH to comprehend narrative discourse by looking at his performance at the micro- and macro-structural levels, and situational model.
