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conduction aphasia

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conduction aphasia [kən′dək·shən ə‚fā·shə]
(psychology)
A form of aphasia featuring selectively impaired repetition, with relatively fluent speech production and good comprehension, often associated with damage in the white matter underlying the parietal operculum.


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The existence of this direct whole-word naming route finds support in studies of subjects with repetition conduction aphasia, some of whom appear to have lost all phonological sequence knowledge (Figure 4, pathway 3/4-7) and do not produce phonological paraphasic errors.
Conduction aphasia is a rare type, occurring in less than 10 percent of cases.
 
 
 
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