The disconnection in anomic aphasia between semantic and phonological lexicons.
PB, a right handed woman aged 26, has developed anomic language disturbances following right frontal and left temporal brain damage due to a road traffic accident. Her anomia shows exceptional features: it occurs in naming tasks in test conditions but not in continuous speech; it involves comprehension deficits but very few semantic errors in expression; it improves with phonemic, but not with semantic cues. These features, it is argued, indicate the disconnection between two intact lexicons: the semantic and the phonological.
Hadar
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Academic Unit of Neuroscience, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London.
Jones
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Mate-Kole
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D000328:Adult; D000849:Anomia / Q000523:psychology*; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics