Auditory discrimination aphasia

Pure word deafness is a disorder of auditory verbal comprehension without dysfunction of speaking, reading, or writing. This rare… (More)

We describe a 57 year old, right handed, English speaking man initially diagnosed with progressive aphasia. Language assessment… (More)

Word deafness is an intriguing neurological syndrome characterized by severe difficulties in the ability to understand or… (More)

BACKGROUND Word deafness refers to an inability to understand spoken words despite intact hearing. In a cognitive approach, word… (More)

Pure word deafness, usually involving left hemisphere focal lesions that destroy Heschl's gyrus and/or isolate auditory… (More)

Three patients with otherwise typical Wernicke's aphasia showed consistent superiority of visual over auditory comprehension. The… (More)