TABLE 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants

Characteristics	RHD (N=32)
Age (years)
Mean (SD), Range	64.5 (11.8), 42–85
Gender
Male	16
Female	16
Education (years)
Mean (SD), Range	14.2 (3.1), 9–22
Lesion site (from CT/MRI report)
Right cortical anterior	3
Right cortical posterior	10
Right cortical anterior + posterior 5
Right basal ganglia	8
Right thalamus	1
Right subcortical mixed	2
Right MCA (unspecified)	3
Lesion type (from CT/MRI report)
Thromboembolic	17
Lacunar	2
Haemorrhagic	13
Months post-onset
Mean (SD), Range	52.2 (50.9), 4–167
*PPVT-Ra
Mean (SD), Range	157.3 (11.3), 132–173
*Complex Syntactic Comprehension (Cleft Object Sentences) b
Mean (SD), Range	9.5 (.78), 7–10
*Auditory Working Memory for Languagec
Word recall errors
Mean (SD), Range	13.2 (7.0), 1–27
*Behavioural Inattention Testd
Mean (SD), Range	137.0 (13.5), 85–146
*Visual Form Discriminatione
Mean (SD), Range	28.1 (3.5), 20–32
*Judgment of Line Orientationf
Mean (SD), Range	22.2 (5.2), 9–30
ABCDg Story Retell
*Immediate Retell
Mean (SD), Range	13.2 (2.5), 7–17
Delayed Retell
Mean (SD), Range	12.7 (3.1), 5–17

RHD = right hemisphere brain damage; anterior = anterior to Rolandic fissure; posterior = posterior to Rolandic fissure.

^aPPVT-III = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III; Dunn & Dunn (1997); maximum =175.

^bCaplan (1987); maximum =10; cleft object sentence subset.

^cTompkins et al. (1994); maximum errors =42.

^dWilson, Cockburn, & Halligan (1987); maximum =146; neglect cutoff =129.

^eBenton, Sivan, Hamsher, Varney & Spreen, (1983); age & gender corrected score; maximum =35.

^fBenton, Hamsher, Varney, & Spreen (1983); maximum =32.

^gABCD = Arizona Battery for Communication Disorders in Dementia; Bayles & Tomoeda, (1993); maximum =17.

^*significantly poorer than a matched, non-brain-damaged control group (by independent t-test, p<.05).