Neuropsychological testing of a patient with auditory agnosia showed that certain difficulties in the initial analysis of sounds may be the cause of his inability to understand spoken words and other sounds. Abnormalities included a slow reaction time to brief auditory stimuli (but not to equally brief visual stimuli or to longer auditory stimuli) and the need for approximately 1/4 sec of silence between two tones before the patient was able to hear them as separate. He could identify words and word associations if he was able to view the object whose name or word associate he was hearing. The findings imply that this patient's deficit in comprehending speech was probably apperceptive rather than associative in origin.
| Symptom | Subdomain | Domain |
|---|---|---|
| auditory agnosia | Perception | Cognitive Systems |
| phonagnosia | Perception | Cognitive Systems |
| visual agnosia | Perception | Cognitive Systems |
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