Lexical-Semantic and Phonological Processing Deficits in Wernicke’s Aphasia

Autor: Burcu Aydın
Jazyk: English<br />Turkish
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, Vol 30, Iss 2, Pp 221-239 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1300-8552
2587-0939
DOI: 10.18492/dad.560784
Popis: This study investigates the lexical-semantic and phonological processing deficits in Wernicke’s aphasia by comparing with healthy controls aiming to shed light on the causes of impairment. Identifying and Picture-Naming, Lexical-Semantic Association and Rhyme Recognition Tests were used to assess the processing. The results showed that Wernicke’s aphasics have the inability to retrieve a name associated with a picture but they were able to match the semantic prime with the associated target image similar to the control group. The results revealed that Wernicke’s aphasics are capable of dealing with lexical-semantic processing and semantic judgment. Rhyme Recognition Test results revealed that Wernicke aphasics have partially preserved comprehension of printed language. The results of this study also showed that Wernicke’s aphasics performed significantly lower accuracy than controls on the phonological test and performed comparably on the semantic test. It is concluded that their deficits are likely to be related to access to the phonological representations of words.
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