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Identified as Brodmann’s area 22.
Type: Fluent
Severity: Deficits in comprehension, repetition, and naming.
Other Characteristics: Speech is characterized by phonemic and semantic paraphasias and neologisms, or jargon aphasia. Patients are often unaware of their language disorder. Reading and writing are also impaired (Papathanasiou & Coppens, 2017).
Conduction Aphasia
Associated with lesions affecting the left temporal-parietal junction. It has been proposed that conduction aphasia results from damage to the insula, primary auditory cortex, and the supramarginal gyrus (Damasio, 1998).
Type: Fluent
Severity: Deficits in repetition and naming with preserved comprehension.
Other Characteristics: Speech is characterized by phonemic paraphasias, however, they are aware of their paraphasias and try to correct them. Reading aloud will result in semantic and phonemic paralexias (Papathanasiou & Coppens, 2017).
Transcortical Sensory
Associated with lesions affecting the parietal-occipital region (Adams et al.,