Table 3.

Means, standard deviations and coefficients of variability of the groups on the MAC Battery.

Tasks ( /maximum score)	Groups
	Right-brain-damaged				Non-brain-damaged
	M†	SD‡	CV§		M	SD	CV
Conversational discourse ( /34)***	26.24	3.91	0.15		30.07	2.73	0.09
Metaphor interpretation ( /40)	28.10	6.74	0.24		28.93	7.16	0.26
Unconstrained verbal fluency**	29.48	25.54	0.87		42.22	17.46	0.41
Linguistic prosody comprehension ( /12)	8.34	3.10	0.37		9.45	2.37	0.25
Linguistic prosody repetition ( /12)**	9.14	2.58	0.28		10.91	1.65	0.15
Narrative discourse: partial retelling, main information ( /18)	11.07	4.14	0.37		11.47	3.88	0.34
Narrative discourse: full retelling ( /29)	6.66	3.65	0.55		7.91	3.39	0.43
Narrative discourse: comprehension questions ( /12)	9.28	2.32	0.25		9.19	2.60	0.28
Verbal fluency with orthographic constraint *	14.10	8.84	0.63		18.29	7.54	0.41
Emotional prosody comprehension** ( /12)	8.76	2.65	0.30		10.47	2.21	0.21
Emotional prosody repetition*** ( /12)	4.86	3.51	0.72		8.57	2.96	0.35
Indirect speech acts interpretation ( /40)	29.97	3.80	0.13		30.50	3.99	0.13
Verbal fluency with semantic constraint **	16.41	8.53	0.52		21.86	6.36	0.29
Emotional prosody production*** ( /18)	4.75	3.77	0.79		11.74	4.22	0.36
Semantic judgement: identification score ( /24)	21.72	2.77	0.13		22.41	2.25	0.10
Semantic judgement: explanation score ( /12)	7.24	3.03	0.42		8.24	3.19	0.39

^*p≤0.05;

^**p≤0.01;

^***p≤0.001;

^†M, stands for mean;

^‡SD, standard deviation;

^§CV, coefficient of variability.