Semantic errors in auditory comprehension in aphasia

Treatment of Auditory Comprehension on Aphasia

Aphasia is a systemic disturbance of speech, revealing in the complete loss or partial loss of speech and local lesion caused by one or more of the speech areas in the brain. In most cases, aphasia occurs in adults, however, it is also possible in children, if the brain injury occurred after it had been formed, at least partially. The term ‘aphasia’ is derived from the Greek ‘fasio’ (say) and t...

Speech Modifications for Supporting Auditory Comprehension in Aphasia

Treating Attention to Improve Auditory Comprehension in Aphasia

most effective interaction with partner T and her least effective interaction with partner L appears to be differences in the nonaphasic partners’ interaction style. L tended to produce contentless back-channel ‘‘mhm’s’’ instead of utilizing her turns to produce understanding checks; then, when she did produce a check it contained a large number of content units. T, on the other hand, produced ...

A MEG investigation of single-word auditory comprehension in aphasia.

PURPOSE To explore whether individuals with aphasia exhibit differences in the M350, an electrophysiological marker of lexical activation, compared with healthy controls. METHOD Seven people with aphasia, 9 age-matched controls, and 10 younger controls completed an auditory lexical decision task while cortical activity was recorded with magnetoencephalography. There were 2 stimulus conditions...

Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia

We show in this chapter that selective aphasic deficits dissociate distinct language processing systems. To this end, we focus on disruptions of lexical access that appear to implicate initial stages of sentence comprehension. The analyses we present turn on comparisons between agrammatic (Broca's) aphasic patients and paragrammatic (Wernicke's) aphasic patients. By the former we mean roughly, ...