(3) Auditory-verbal comprehension: transcort sens aphasia

Question 1

What is transcortical sensory aphasia?

Answer 1

Impairment of word meaning results from damage to posterior language area surrounding Wernicke’s area in the border of the temporal, parietal, and accipital lobes

Question 2

Damage to posterior language alone

Answer 2

Is rare, isolates it from Wernicke’s area and produces t.s.s

Question 3

Recognize words as

Answer 3

evidenced by accurate repetition of words they hear

Question 4

Comprehension of words (heard, repeated, or read) is

Answer 4

Impaired!…speech is impaired as described before

Question 5

Geschwind’s case study

Answer 5

• “never said anything meaningful on her own” after brain damage
• never gave indication she understood – e.g. did not follow instructions
• repeated what she heard
  a. not “parrot-like”
  b. did not mimic accents
  c. corrected grammar
  d. completed familiar poems
  e. learned new songs