The interactive nature of auditory comprehension in aphasia.
This study assessed the interaction between information derived from context and the auditory signal as it related to comprehension of specific words in narratives. Contextual influences were manipulated by varying the degree to which the narratives predicted the target words. The auditory influences were manipulated by varying the amount of auditory signal available, either all of the target word or only the initial sound sequence. The results indicated that aphasic subjects use information from both sources but that the contextual information, in its strong form, may take precedence over the auditory information.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia; D001039:Aphasia, Broca; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged