PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anomic Aphasia, Angular Gyrus, Hooj Choons
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Alexia is a deficit in reading; agraphia is a problem in writing. There are three major categories of aphasia: receptive aphasias- deal with receiving and understanding language/decoding; integrative aphasias- these involve problems in comprehension and formation of language; expressive aphasias- problems in expressing language or problems in getting language out. I can hear, sounds come, but words don"t separate. There is no trouble at all with sound. Sounds come, i can hear, but i cannot understand it. ; these patients have a normal ability to read, write, or speak; cannot understand themselves when they hear themselves speak. Integrative aphasias are problems in selecting and arranging meaningful units and their eventual conversion into comprehensible, coherent speech; so basically these are about the nuts and bolts of speech and being able to truly comprehend/integrate what speech means: Conduction aphasia is when the person cannot repeat; if asked to repeat, they will say nothing at all; they have good comprehension and fluent speech.
