Auditory Comprehension Problems in Adult Aphasic Individuals
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Whether an aphasic patient understands what is said appears to be influenced by many factors in addition to the message itself, among them: how the material is presented, what the situational context is, the nature of the response required, the individual's cognitive functioning, his/her motivation, and the location and extent of the cerebral lesion_ Of course, the individual engaged in the comprehension task is also important. The nature of auditory comprehension problems in adult aphasic individuals is indeed complex, but we are making headway_ To paraphrase Shakespeare, To understand or not to understand is a complex question.
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