Medicina: Neuropsicologia cognitiva
| English |
| pure word deafness |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun phrase
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| Definition |
Impaired ability to recognize sounds despite normal auditory function.
Profound loss of auditory comprehension and a complete impairment of repetition. Yet patients produce normal fluent speech, mostly without paraphasias. The lesions typically result from interruption between Wernicke’s area a Heschl’s aural areas.
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| Definition source |
Loring D.W. 1999
Loring D.W. 1999
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| Context |
Patients with pure word deafness have a profound loss of auditory comprehension and a complete impairment of repetition, yet they produce normal fluent speech, mostly without paraphasias. It could be argued that pure word deafness, like pure alexia, is not a true aphasia, since language formulation itself is not affected. From a physiopathological standpoint, both conditions reflect the inability of verbal information to reach structures capable of processing it into meaning. Inner language operations as well as exteriorization of well-formulated language remain intact.
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| Context source |
Sarno 1991
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| Subject field |
Aphasia
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Aphasiology
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Clinical neuropsychology
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| Sub-field (level 3) |
Aphasic syndromes
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| Generic concept |
Pure form
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| Related concept |
Pure alexia, Pure agraphia, Alexia with agraphia, Anarthria
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| it |
Sordità verbale pura
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| Reliability code |
3
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