Fundamental deficits of auditory perception in wernicke's aphasia

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1808-1822

  Robson, Holly ^a,c   Grube, Manon ^b   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Griffiths, Timothy D ^b   Sage, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Comprehension; Dynamic modulation; Frequency; Frequency modulation; Wernicke's aphasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AUDITORY PROCESSING; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY; AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY; APHASIA, WERNICKE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA, WERNICKE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84879460480     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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