Describe the symptoms of pure word deafness and transcortical sensory aphasia. How are they related to Wernicke's aphasia?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Pure word deafness (PWD) is a syndrome produced by damage to the left temporal lobe in which a person can hear but is unable to recognize/understand the words that are heard. A PWD patient can read and write and is able to recognize the emotional content of speech even if he or she cannot understand the meaning of the words. Damage to the posterior language area only produces poor speech comprehension and poor speech production. Damage to Wernicke's area and to the posterior language area produces an aphasia syndrome that includes poor speech comprehension, poor repetition, and the production of fluent—but meaningless—speech. In short, Wernicke's syndrome is a combination of the two syndromes.
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