Deafness for the Meanings of Number Words

Autor/inn/en	Cano, Agnes; Rapp, Brenda; Costa, Albert; Juncadella, Montserrat
Titel	Deafness for the Meanings of Number Words
Quelle	In: Neuropsychologia, 46 (2008) 1, S.63-81 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0028-3932
DOI	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.08.008
Schlagwörter	Visual Stimuli; Semantics; Number Concepts; Auditory Stimuli; Aphasia; Listening Comprehension; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Neurological Organization; Neurological Impairments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Number concept; Zahlbegriff; Auditive Stimulation; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Hörverständnis; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung
Abstract	We describe the performance of an aphasic individual who showed a selective impairment affecting his comprehension of auditorily presented number words and not other word categories. His difficulty in number word comprehension was restricted to the auditory modality, given that with visual stimuli (written words, Arabic numerals and pictures) his comprehension of number and non-number words was intact. While there have been previous reports of selective difficulty or sparing of number words at the semantic and post-semantic levels, this is the first reported case of a pre-semantic deficit that is specific to the category of number words. This constitutes evidence that lexical semantic distinctions are respected by modality-specific neural mechanisms responsible for providing access to the meanings of words. (As Provided).
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