Patients with unilateral right-hemisphere lesions performed significantly worse than normal controls in arranging the mixed-up sentences of stories. This impairment was not restricted to paragraphs conveying primarily spatial information, but occurred on other types of paragraphs as well. Nonspecific deficits of brain injury were ruled out as possible alternative explanations for the patients' difficulty on the task. The organization of language at the paragraph level may depend on right-hemisphere functioning.
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