La questione dell'emisfero destro. Una rassegna ed alcune ipotesi di ricerca

In the most recent studies on language processing the role of the right hemisphere has been the object of renewed attention, in a series of works aimed at underlining its role in pragmatic processing as well as in various tasks previously attributed to the sole left hemisphere. This paper presents a brief review of the latest studies on the role of the right hemisphere in the so-called normal language processing, that is in the processing of the language spoken by right-handed subjects not suffering from language pathologies, with particular reference to pragmatic processing and to a series of aspects related to lexical-semantic processing, in the perspective of highlighting some critical issues of the matter and outline a sort of research program on the right hemisphere contribution to language processing.