Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the nature of the deficit for a conduction aphasic patient in order to evaluate two different theories of conduction aphasia. First, a conduction aphasic patient FS was tested on auditory word-pair discrimination, word-repetition, and picture-naming. The results of these tasks indicated that her deficit was likely to be post-lexical rather than perceptual or lexical. Next, we examined her repetition performance for two types of nonwords (high-wordlike and low-wordlike nonwords) to distinguish the two theories. FS exhibited a wordlikeness effect: she produced more correct moras and more correct combinations of moras for high-wordlike nonwords than low-wordlike nonwords. We conclude that she had difficulty in maintaining stable phonological representations of verbal materials in the output buffer. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 222-230 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Brain and Language |
Volume | 85 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2003 |
Keywords
- Aged
- diagnosis: Aphasia, Conduction
- Female
- Human
- Phonetics
- Random Allocation
- Severity of Illness Index
- Speech Production Measurement
- Verbal Behavior
- Vocabulary