The effects of emotionality on auditory comprehension in aphasia.
Twelve exclusively left brain damaged aphasic male patients (8 global, 3 Wernicke and 1 mixed transcortical) were administered an auditory single word discrimination task. The stimuli were 7 emotional action words, 7 nonemotional action words, 7 emotional object names and 7 nonemotional object names. Results showed significantly better performance on emotional words versus nonemotional words. Implications for assessment and treatment of aphasia are discussed.
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Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, University of Lund.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000503:physiopathology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*