Table 2.

Select demographic and clinical data for two participant groups.

	NBD (n = 14)a			RHD (n=14)b
Variable	M	SD	Range	M	SD	Range	t	p	d
Age (years)	65.2	7.2	53–79	67.6	98.8	54–81	−0.79	.43	0.30
Years of education	14.6	2.7	10–19	14.07	2.4	11–18	0.59	.56	0.20
Discourse Comprehension Test (DCT)c
Total errors	4.1	2.3	0–7	5.2	2.9	2–12	−1.06	.30	0.42
Detail stated	1.6	1.1	0–3	1.6	1.3	0–4	0	1.0	0
Detail inferred	1.9	1.0	0–4	3.1	1.3	2–7	−2.6	.02	1.0
Main idea stated	0.36	0.63	0–2	0.21	0.43	0–1	0.70	.49	0.28
Main idea inferred	0.29	0.47	0–1	0.36	0.75	0–2	−0.30	.76	0.16
Receptive vocabularyd (standard score)	106.8	13.9	80–124	98.8	11.1	77–114	1.69	.10	0.64
Inferencing and nonliteral languagee (20 possible)	19.0	1.9	14–20	18.4	1.6	16–20	0.87	.40	0.34
Working memoryf	8.1	5.7	1–18	13.8	5.2	4–23	−2.73	.01	1.0
The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT)g
Total score (64 possible)	51.5	5.7	37–58	43.4	7.1	29–55	3.33	.003	1.3
Sarcasm (32 possible)	24.4	4.2	17–31	18.9	4.3	12–27	3.37	.002	1.3
Lies (32 possible)	27.1	3.6	17–31	24.5	4.9	13–32	1.63	.12	0.60

Note. Independent t test statistics (t value, p value, and effect size [d]) are provided. The d values represent the effect size for the between-groups comparisons. NBD = no brain damage; RHD = right hemisphere brain damage.

^aGroup = 9 women, 5 men.

^bGroup = 6 women, 8 men.

^cBrookshire and Nicholas (1993).

^dPeabody Picture Vocabulary Test–III (Dunn & Dunn, 2000).

^eInferencing and nonliteral language subtests of the Burns Brief Inventory of Communication and Cognition (Burns, 1997).

^fTompkins et al. (1994).

^gEnriched subtest of the TASIT (McDonald et al., 2002).