Attention and anosognosia: the case of a jargonaphasic patient with unawareness of language deficit.
Some patients with aphasia lack awareness of the language errors they make. We describe a man with undifferentiated jargonaphasia and preserved auditory comprehension who was unaware of his speech production errors when he had to both speak and listen simultaneously. However, when listening to a recording of his speech, he could detect the speech errors he had made. We attribute this patient's unawareness of his speech production errors to a reduced attentional capacity for simultaneous linguistic tasks.
Shuren
J E
JE
Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati, OH 45267-0525.
Hammond
C S
CS
Maher
L M
LM
Rothi
L J
LJ
Heilman
K M
KM
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male