word deafness

As such, "pure word deafness" is something of a misnomer.

Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code.

"On pure word deafness, temporal processing, and the left hemisphere".

(1976) An analysis of speech perception in word deafness.

Individuals that exhibit pure word deafness are usually also able to comprehend non-verbal sounds.

In one such case, the patient exhibited progressive word deafness over a 9 year period but did not exhibit any other cognitive of mental deterioration.

Complications included motor weakness, epilepsy, sensory aphasia and "word deafness".

Auditory verbal agnosia (also known as Pure Word Deafness)

After Wernicke, came Kussmaul in 1877 who attempted to explain why Auditory verbal agnosia, also known as word deafness, occurs.

Historically, those with pure word deafness are not deaf - they can (in the absence of other impairments) hear sounds, including speech (so it has nothing to do with words).

Auditory verbal agnosia, also known as Pure Word Deafness, is caused by bilateral damage to the posterior superior temporal lobes or disruption of connections between these areas.

In his article, Satoh states "when pure word deafness, auditory sound agnosia, and receptive amusia occur simultaneously, the state is called auditory agnosia" (Satoh 2007).

While at Bern he also successfully submitted articles on the histological preparation of brain cells, sensory aphasia ("word deafness"), the anatomy of the brain and cerebral localisation and forensic psychiatry.

From 1869 he published several papers on speech disorders, describing a visual and later an auditory word centre, as well as word blindness and word deafness (later known as Wernicke's aphasia).

Phonagnosia is an auditory agnosia, an acquired auditory processing disorder resulting from brain damage, other auditory agnosias include Cortical deafness and Auditory verbal agnosia also known as pure word deafness.