Word deafness with preserved number word perception

Facilitating and Disrupting Speech Perception in Word Deafness

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...

Word deafness in Wernicke's aphasia.

Three patients with otherwise typical Wernicke's aphasia showed consistent superiority of visual over auditory comprehension. The precedents for and anatomical basis of a selective auditory deficit in Wernicke's aphasia are discussed, including the relationship to pure word deafness. One implication of spared visual language function may be the use of gesture in language therapy for such patients.

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 ...

A Study on Pure Word-deafness.