title: Aphasics' defective perception of connotative meaning of verbal items which have no denotative meaning.
abstract: This study deals with the question of whether in aphasic patients the grasping of connotative meaning is disturbed. The method used was the "maluma - takete" type (Koehler, 1947): matching of synthetic words to meaningless figures. It was proven that asphasics from different countries with different languages have a disturbed perception of connotative meaning. There was a correlation with the severity of language comprehension disturbance in aphasics.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008875:Middle Aged; D012660:Semantics