Table 1.
Individual histories and performance on WAB (Kertesz, 1982), BNT (Goodglass, Kaplan, & Weintraub, 1983), and selected PALPA (Kay, Lesser, & Coltheart, 1992) tests for seven Wernicke’s and seven Broca’s aphasic patients
| Age | WAB AQ | WAB- fluency |
WAB-AC | BNT | PALPA- WPM |
PALPA- synonym judgment |
PALPA- semantic associates HI |
PALPA- semantic associates LI |
PALPA- VLD |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broca’s aphasic patients | ||||||||||
| EP | 57 | 48.2 | 1 | 9.8 | 0 | 0.93 | 0.83 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 1 |
| RN | 65 | 41.8 | 4 | 6.7 | 0.05 | 0.93 | 0.72 | 0.67 | 0.13 | 0.92 |
| JOC | 64 | 78 | 5 | 9.45 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.93 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1 |
| JG | 63 | 30 | 1 | 8.1 | 0 | 0.83 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.95 |
| MR | 56 | 59 | 5 | 6.1 | 0.16 | 1 | 0.82 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1 |
| MD | 53 | 78.3 | 4 | 9.35 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.98 | 0.87 | 0.87 | 1 |
| CH | 50 | 81.6 | 6 | 7.9 | 0.82 | 0.98 | 0.97 | 0.8 | 0.87 | 1 |
| Mean | 58.29 | 59.56 | 3.71 | 8.20 | 0.35 | 0.95 | 0.86 | 0.73 | 0.57 | 0.98 |
| Wernicke’s aphasic patients | ||||||||||
| RM | 63 | 50.9 | 7 | 5.85 | 0.13 | 0.89 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.53 | 0.98 |
| HJ | 64 | 43.4 | 5 | 5.8 | 0.15 | 0.59 | 0.68 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.92 |
| JA | 72 | 70 | 8 | 6.8 | 0.08 | 0.66 | 0.67 | 0.53 | 0.4 | 0.9 |
| RM | 75 | 46.4 | 7 | 5.7 | 0.07 | 0.85 | 0.65 | 0.33 | 0.2 | 0.95 |
| HS | 76 | 59.8 | 6 | 6.4 | 0.02 | 0.51 | 0.68 | 0.33 | 0.4 | 0.97 |
| DS | 63 | 75.6 | 8 | 7.1 | 0.47 | 0.94 | 0.8 | 0.67 | 0.33 | 0.98 |
| NH | 81 | 76.2 | 9 | 7.7 | 0.32 | 0.98 | 0.79 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Mean | 70.57 | 60.33 | 7.14 | 6.48 | 0.18 | 0.77 | 0.71 | 0.52 | 0.32 | 0.96 |
Note. AC, auditory comprehension; WPM, word–picture matching; HI, high imageability; LI, low imageability; VLD, visual lexical decision.