WORD DEAFNESS AND AUDITORY CORTICAL FUNCTION: A CASE HISTORY AND HYPOTHESIS

Word Deafness and Auditory Cortical Function

A patient who already had Wernicke's aphasia due to a left temporal lobe lesion suffered a severe deterioration specifically of auditory language comprehension, subsequent to right temporal lobe infarction. A detailed comparison of his new condition with his language status before the second stroke revealed that the newly acquired deficit was limited to tasks related to auditory input. Further ...

Word Deafness and Auditory Cortical Function

Word Deafness and Auditory Cortical Function

Cortical Deafness, Auditory Agnosia, and Word-Deafness: How Distinct are They?

Word-deafness (verbal auditory agnosia, agnosia for speech, agnosia for acoustic language) is the most devastating of all the disorders of the central auditory pathway in children, whether the disorder is present from infancy (dysphasia) or is acquired (aphasia). Typically, word-deaf children are mute and understand little or nothing of what is said to them; they resemble deaf children in this ...

Ictal Pure Word Deafness with Auditory Hallucination

Pure word deafness is a disorder of auditory verbal comprehension without dysfunction of speaking, reading, or writing. This rare symptom arises from bilateral lesions in the temporal lobes or disconnection between the primary auditory cortex and Wernicke’s area. I present a right-handed 33-year-old woman who presented with pure word deafness and complex auditory hallucination with intermittent...