Ph.D.: The Johns Hopkins University, 1978.
Cognitive neuropsychology: how injury to various parts of the brain can selectively impair linguistic and cognitive ability; language: theory of mind, discourse, narrative, and lexical semantics; methodology.
Brownell, H. H., Blum, A., & Winner, E. (1994). Attributional bias in RHD patients with impaired discourse comprehension. Brain and Language, 47, 476-478.
Brownell, H.H., Carroll, J. J., Rehak, A., & Wingfield, A. (1992). The use of pronoun anaphora and speaker mood in the interpretation of conversational utterances by right hemisphere brain-damaged patients. Brain and Language, 43, 121-147.
Brownell, H. H., Gardner, H., Prather, P., & Martino, G. (1995). Language, communication, and the right hemisphere. In H. S. Kirshner (Ed.), Handbook of neurological speech and language disorders (pp. 325-349). New York: Marcel Dekker.
Brownell, H. H., & Martino, G. (1998). Deficits in inference and social cognition: The effects of right hemisphere brain damage on discourse. In M. Beeman & C. Chiarello (Eds.), Right hemisphere language comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience (pp. 309-328). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brownell, H. H., Pincus, D., Blum, A., Rehak, A., & Winner, E. (1997). The effects of right hemisphere brain damage on patients' use of terms of personal reference. Brain and Language, 57, 60-79.
Rehak, A., Kaplan, J. A., Weylman, S. T., Kelly, B., Brownell, H. H., & Gardner, H. (1992). Story processing in right brain-damaged patients. Brain and Language, 42, 320-336.
Winner, E., Brownell, H., Happe, F., Blum, A., & Pincus, D., (1998). Distinguishing lies from jokes: Theory of mind deficits and discourse interpretation in right hemisphere brain-damaged patients. Brain and Language, 62, 89-106.
Happé, F., Brownell, H., & Winner, E. (1999). Acquired 'theory of mind' impairments following stroke. Cognition, 70, 211-240.
Brownell, H., & Stringfellow, A. (1999). Making requests: Illustrations of how right-hemisphere brain damage can affect discourse production. Brain and Language, 68, 442-465
Brownell, H., Griffin, R., Winner, E., Friedman, O., & Happe, F. (2000). Cerebral lateralization and theory of mind. To appear in S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, and D. Cohen (Eds.), Understanding other minds: Perspectives from autism and developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2nd edition (pp. 311-338). Oxford University Press.
Theory of Mind Deficits in Adult Stroke Patients. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (1997-2001). Principal Investigator: H. Brownell. Principal Collaborator: E. Winner
Discourse Performance after Left- and Right-Sided Brain Injury: The Appreciation of Politeness Conventions. Project 5 of Program Project Grant titled, "Aphasia Research Center." National Institute of Deafness and Communication (1995-2000). Principal Investigator of Program Project: M. Albert. Principal Investigator of Project 5: H. Brownell.
Hiram Brownell, Professor
Department of Psychology
Boston College
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