Aphasia

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Aphasia

• Carl Wernicke (1880)
• Wernickes aphasia. Impairment of comprehension
  of language
• Speech intact understanding of speech was lost
• Produced by lesions
• to the posterior part of
• the temporal lobe (left
• hemisphere)

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Wernickes Aphasia (cont)

• Speech ouptut occurs without hesitation, speech
  sounds are well formed, but the result is word
  salad
• Speech errors include
• Substitute words with similar meaning (semantic
  paraphasi). barn rather than house
• Substitue words with simlar sounds (phonemic
  paraphasia). fable rather than table
• Follow rules of production, but not words
  (neologisms). galump etc.

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From S. Thompson-Schill

• Transcripts of Cinderella Story
•  
• Patient MA (2,10)
• She picked she, sh- she did the beginning, then
  she met this one. And then, this one.
• You mean you want the whole thing?
• Ok, Cinderella - - I cant.
• Ok, Cinderella went to, septa- stepmother, with
  the sepsisters. They were like, um, sumpage,
  supa, I dont Sum you -

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• Ok they had the out people. They, they not in the
  beginning but the big house. Not the big one but
  the front, in the front of it, is where they
  went.
• (The castle?)
• Yeah, but its in the back. This is S-something.
  Where they, these and they hold this up.
• (Scullery?)

5

• No, its where they work. Its like there, theyre
  theyre like, they keep this do-do-doo,
  do-do-doo.
• (The kitchen?)
• Yeah, something like that.
• Its where they, they

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• (Servants quarters?)
•  
• Right, well, thats what shes like. Alright?
  Yeah, thats what she shuz. Cleans this, and this
  and that and that.
•  
• And , she went, um, she kept cleaning
  everything. You know, cleaning this, doing that,
  doing that. Scrape, scrape, scrape.
•  
• Not the other ones. The sep-sisters.
• No. They wanted to sleep, and you know, and then. 

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• Theyre pretty ugly too.
• No, its not that. Its everybodys different,
  everybodys beautiful still.
•  
• No, its just
•  
• And then they went to, they went to, who was
  this?, yeah, they went to the king for the
  prince. And thats where they all went except
  Cinderella wasnt allowed to. They said she can
  go with them but after youre done with this
  cleaning and then you can go.

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• Patient JS (1,24)
•  
• Um. Uh. Man and woman. Two girls. And, and, man
  one girl. Met, get married. And uh uh man
  died. Three, three, one woman and three girls.
• And uh, um, um, uh, one girl whole bunch of uh
  dirty work. Yeah.
• And uh, about uh, OK uh, king uh