title: Nonlinguistic memory in aphasia.
abstract: Two experiments were carried out to assess nonlinguistic memory in aphasia. In the first experiment, subjects had to make judgments about the frequency with which words in a study list were repeated, and, in the second, they had to recall the spatial location in which a pictured object had been presented originally. Aphasics were very accurate in both tasks and did not differ from normal controls. It is suggested that a comprehensive account of memory in aphasia requires that we look beyond their omnipresent language deficit to more general processing factors such as attentional capacity.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000523:psychology; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D014706:Verbal Learning