A Distinctive Case of Word Meaning Deafness?

We report the case of a patient, DrO, who has impaired auditory comprehension but intact written comprehension. His ability to repeat words that he cannot comprehend, and his good performance on auditory lexical decision, suggestthat DrO has an impairment of the mappings between the lexical represen...

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Published in:	Cognitive neuropsychology 1996-01, Vol.13 (8), p.1139-1162
Main Authors:	Franklin, Sue, Turner, Judy, Ralph, Matthew A. Lambon, Morris, Julie, Bailey, Peter J.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Biological and medical sciences Factors language Language and communication disorders Lexical representation Medical sciences psycholinguistics Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Relationship Semantic processing speech and language pathology Word meaning deafness
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Summary:	We report the case of a patient, DrO, who has impaired auditory comprehension but intact written comprehension. His ability to repeat words that he cannot comprehend, and his good performance on auditory lexical decision, suggestthat DrO has an impairment of the mappings between the lexical representations of spoken words and theircorresponding semantic representations; a word meaning deafness. DrO's ability to understand heard words depends on their imageability and length, such that he is worse at comprehending words that are both short and abstract.This is interpreted in terms ofphonologicalandsemantic distinctiveness.
ISSN:	0264-3294 1464-0627 1464-0627