Deep dysphasia: An analog of deep dyslexia in the auditory modality |
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Authors: | F Michel E Andreewsky |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie Expérimentale, INSERM-U 94, 16, avenue du Doyen Lépine, 69500 Lyon-Bron, France;INSERM-U 84, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 75013 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | A right-handed patient, with two left hemisphere lesions, a small one in the prefrontal lobe and a larger one in the temporal, presents an unusual syndrome: a massive deficit for oral language (expression and comprehension) contrasting with a fairly good preservation of written language (expression and comprehension). The processing of isolated words and sentences has been extensively tested with repetition and dictation tasks. The patient performs rather well with nouns, verbs, and adjectives, poorly with adverbs and function words, and completely fails with nonsense words. A remarkable feature of his repetition is the frequency of semantic paraphasias. Thus, this patient exhibits a behavior rather similar to deep dyslexia, hence the possible label "deep dysphasia." The paper presents a "preunderstanding" hypothesis to account for such behaviors. |
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