Sample Bibliography of Neurolinguistic
Research on Proverbs,
by Dr. Diana Van Lancker (August, 1999)

Benton, A. 1968. Differential behavioral effects in frontal lobe disease. Neuropsychologia, 6, 53-60.

Bogen, J. E. 1969. The other side of the brain II: An appositional mind. Bulletin of the Los Angeles Neurological Societies, 324, 191-219.

Code, C. 1982. Neurolinguistic analysis of recurrent utterance in aphasia. Cortex, 18, 141-152.

Gorham, D. R. 1956a. A proverbs test for clinical and experimental use. Psychol. Rep. Monogr. Suppl, No. 1.

Gorham, D. R. 1956b. Proverbs Test. Clinical Forms I, II and III. Best Answer Form. Clinical Manual. Louisville, KY: Psychological Test Specialists.

Graves, R. & Landis, T. 1985. Hemispheric control of speech expression in aphasia. Archives of Neurology, 42, 249-251.

Hughlings Jackson, J. 1874 . On the nature of the duality of the brain. Reprinted in J. Taylor, (Ed.). Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson. Vol. 2., 1932. (pp. 129-45). London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Hughlings Jackson, J. 1915 . On affections of speech from diseases of the brain. Brain, 38, 101-186.

Kempler, D. & Van Lancker, D. 1996 . Familiar and Novel Language Comprehension Test. Copyright.

Kempler, D. Van Lancker, D., Marchman, V. & Bates, E. 1999. Idiom comprehension in children and adults with unilateral brain damage. Developmental Neuropsychology (in press).

Kempler, D., Van Lancker, D., & Read, S. 1988. Proverb and idiom comprehension in Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 2(1), 38-49.

Nippold, M. & Haq, F. S. 1996. Proverb comprehension in youth: The role of concreteness and familiarity. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39.

Speedie, L.J., Wertman, E., Ta'ir, J., & Heilman, K.M. 1993. Disruption of automatic speech following a right basal ganglia lesion. Neurology, 43(9), 1768-1774.

Van Lancker, D. 1988. Nonpropositional speech: Neurolinguistic studies. In A. Ellis (Ed.), Progress in the psychology of language. London: L. Erlbaum. Vol. 3, (pp. 49-118).

Van Lancker, D. 1990. The neurology of proverbs. Behavioral Neurology, 3, 169-187.

Van Lancker, D. , Canter, J., & Terbeek, D. 1981. Disambiguation of ditropic sentences: Acoustic and phonetic cues. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 24, 330-335.

Van Lancker, D. 1972. Language lateralisation and grammars. In J.P. Kimball (Ed.), Studies in syntax and semantics , Vol 2. (pp. 197-204). New York: Seminar Press.

Van Lancker, D. 1994. Nonpropositional speech in aphasia. In G. Blanken, J. Dittmann, H. Grimm, J. C. Marshall, and C.-W. Wallesch (Eds.) Linguistic Disorders and Pathologies. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Van Lancker, D., & Kempler, D. 1987. Comprehension of familiar phrases by left- but not by right-hemisphere damaged patients. Brain and Language, 32, 265-277.

Whitaker, H. A. 1976. A case of isolation of the speech functions. In H. Whitaker & H. A. Whitaker (Eds.). Studies in Neurolinguistics, Vol. 2. (Pp. 1-58). London: Academic Press.

Winner, E &. Gardner, H. 1977. The comprehension of metaphor in brain-damaged patients. Brain, 100.