This research aims to present meta-analysis studies with right-brain-damaged participants, by verifying their performance in four communicative processing domains: discursive, pragmatic-inferential, lexical-semantic and prosodic. Recent neuropsychology literature has been focusing on relations among language, communication, cognition and emotion, with a great interest in right hemisphere role in damaged and non damaged individuals' behavior. Methodological aspects and final data of 25 Medline and Sciencedirect studies were analyzed. It was observed that 330 (92.4%) right brain damaged participants showed quantitative or qualitative impaired performance in the communicative tasks studied. It seems that right hemisphere presents an important function on communication processing, when it comes to discursive, pragmatic-inferential, lexical-semantic and prosodic abilities.
neuropsychology; communication disorders; language; cerebrovascular disorders
