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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2012 Apr 10;121(3):273–288. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.005

Table 1.

A summary of language pathologies discussed in this paper.

Semantic
Dementia
Transcortical
Sensory Aphasia
Reproduction
Conduction Aphasia
Repetition
Conduction Aphasia
Primary lesion
Localization
temporal Pole posterior MTG left SMG and
parietal operculum
superior temporal
Defining Symptom loss of semantic
knowledge
semantic paraphasia
(TABLE → chair)
phonological paraphasia
(PEN → pan)
impaired word recall
and recognition
Auditory Word
Comprehension
impaired impaired preserved preserved
Nonverbal
Comprehension
impaired preserved preserved preserved
Speech Production preserved preserved impaired preserved
Phoneme
Discrimination
preserved preserved impaired preserved
Spoken Word
Repetition
preserved preserved impaired impaired
Hypothesized
Affected Function
conceptual hub ventral lexicon dorsal lexicon phonological short-
term store
Alternate
Term
primary progressive
aphasia
word meaning
deafness
word form
deafness
associative
aphasia