Journal
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Volume 85, Issue 1, Pages 93-108Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00502-3
Keywords
conduction aphasia; short-term memory; syntactic comprehension
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In this study, the linguistic performance of 20 patients with acute conduction aphasia (CA) is described. CA presented as a relatively homogeneous aphasic syndrome characterized by a severe impairment of repetition and fluent expressive language functions with frequent phonemic paraphasias, repetitive self-corrections, word-finding difficulties, and paraphrasing. Language comprehension as assessed by tests of auditory and reading comprehension was only mildly impaired, whereas most patients performed poorly on the Token Test. Verbalauditory short-term memory was reduced in all patients except one and seems to play a role in associated cognitive deficits, such as impaired syntactic comprehension or reduced mental arithmetics. A follow-up examination of 12 patients showed that CA often resulted in a chronic language deficit. Lesion locations were the posterior temporal and inferior parietal lobe. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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