[Disturbances of the social cognition in right-hemisphere brain-damaged patients].
15 drawings of social situations were presented to 21 left- and 21 right hemisphere brain-damaged patients. They were required to interpret the situations shown in the drawings. The right hemisphere lesioned group performed significantly worse than did the left-hemisphere lesioned group. This deficit in social cognition in the former group is viewed as a further consequence of their well-known basic disturbance in structuring non-linguistic information. This "social disorientation" is considered as a major factor in the social behavioral deficits observable in the right hemisphere lesioned patients. Emotional disturbances are discussed as a possible additional factor.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012938:Social Perception
Uber Störungen der sozialen Kognition bei Rechtshirngeschädigten.