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'Inner Speech' in Conduction Aphasia

'Inner Speech' in Conduction Aphasia Abstract • It has been suggested by Kurt Goldstein, MD, that conduction aphasia is a disturbance of "inner speech." We tested this hypothesis in five patients who had conduction aphasia with similar speech disturbances. The patients were presented with pictures and were required to perform, without overt vocalization, comparisons of word length and homophonic and rhyming matches. Four patients successfully performed such judgments on words they could not vocalize, but one patient could not. These findings suggest that the hypothesis may have been correct for only a subgroup of conduction aphasics. The findings also provide evidence for heterogeneity within the class of conduction aphasia. References 1. Albert ML, Goodglass H, Helm NA, et al: Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia , in Arnold GE, Winckel F, Wyke BD (eds): Disorders of Human Communication , series 2. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1981, pp 80-84. 2. Warrington EK, Logue V, Pratt RTC: The anatomical localization of selective impairment of auditory verbal short-term memory . Neuropsychologia 1971;9:377-387.Crossref 3. Warrington EK, Shallice T: Neuropsychological evidence of visual storage in short-term memory tasks . Q J Exp Psychol 1942;24:30-40.Crossref 4. Strub RL, Gardner H: The repetition defect in conduction aphasia: Mnestic or linguistic . Brain Lang 1975;1:242-255. 5. Brown JW: The problem of repetition: A study of 'conduction' aphasia and the 'isolation' syndrome . Cortex 1975;11:37-52.Crossref 6. Kohn SE: The nature of the phonological disorder in conduction aphasia . Brain Lang 1984;23:97-115.Crossref 7. Friedrich FJ, Glenn CG, Marin OS: Interruption of phonological coding in conduction aphasia . Brain Lang 1974;22:266-291.Crossref 8. Goldstein K: Die zentrale Aphasie . Neurol Zentralbl 1912;12:739-751. 9. Goldstein K: Language and Language Disturbances . New York, Grune & Stratton, 1948. 10. Kertesz A, Poole E: The aphasia quotient: The taxonomic approach to measurement of aphasic disability . Can J Neurol Sci 1974;2:7-16. 11. Dunn LM, Dunn LM: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised . Circle Pines, Minn, American Guidance Service, 1981. 12. Levine DN, Calvanio R, Popovics A: Language in the absence of inner speech . Neuropsychologia 1982;20:391-409.Crossref 13. Nebes RD: The nature of internal speech in a patient with aphemia . Brain Lang 1975;2:489-497.Crossref 14. Benson DF, Sheremata WA, Bouchard R, et al: Conduction aphasia: A clinicopathological study . Arch Neurol 1973;28:339-346.Crossref 15. Kohn SE, Goodglass H: Picture-naming in aphasia . Brain Lang 1985;24:266-283.Crossref 16. Goodglass H, Kaplan E, Weintraub S, et al: The 'tip-of-the-tongue' phenomenon in aphasia . Cortex 1976;12:145-153.Crossref http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Neurology American Medical Association

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Abstract • It has been suggested by Kurt Goldstein, MD, that conduction aphasia is a disturbance of "inner speech." We tested this hypothesis in five patients who had conduction aphasia with similar speech disturbances. The patients were presented with pictures and were required to perform, without overt vocalization, comparisons of word length and homophonic and rhyming matches. Four patients successfully performed such judgments on words they could not vocalize, but one patient could not. These findings suggest that the hypothesis may have been correct for only a subgroup of conduction aphasics. The findings also provide evidence for heterogeneity within the class of conduction aphasia. References 1. Albert ML, Goodglass H, Helm NA, et al: Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia , in Arnold GE, Winckel F, Wyke BD (eds): Disorders of Human Communication , series 2. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1981, pp 80-84. 2. Warrington EK, Logue V, Pratt RTC: The anatomical localization of selective impairment of auditory verbal short-term memory . Neuropsychologia 1971;9:377-387.Crossref 3. Warrington EK, Shallice T: Neuropsychological evidence of visual storage in short-term memory tasks . Q J Exp Psychol 1942;24:30-40.Crossref 4. Strub RL, Gardner H: The repetition defect in conduction aphasia: Mnestic or linguistic . Brain Lang 1975;1:242-255. 5. Brown JW: The problem of repetition: A study of 'conduction' aphasia and the 'isolation' syndrome . Cortex 1975;11:37-52.Crossref 6. Kohn SE: The nature of the phonological disorder in conduction aphasia . Brain Lang 1984;23:97-115.Crossref 7. Friedrich FJ, Glenn CG, Marin OS: Interruption of phonological coding in conduction aphasia . Brain Lang 1974;22:266-291.Crossref 8. Goldstein K: Die zentrale Aphasie . Neurol Zentralbl 1912;12:739-751. 9. Goldstein K: Language and Language Disturbances . New York, Grune & Stratton, 1948. 10. Kertesz A, Poole E: The aphasia quotient: The taxonomic approach to measurement of aphasic disability . Can J Neurol Sci 1974;2:7-16. 11. Dunn LM, Dunn LM: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised . Circle Pines, Minn, American Guidance Service, 1981. 12. Levine DN, Calvanio R, Popovics A: Language in the absence of inner speech . Neuropsychologia 1982;20:391-409.Crossref 13. Nebes RD: The nature of internal speech in a patient with aphemia . Brain Lang 1975;2:489-497.Crossref 14. Benson DF, Sheremata WA, Bouchard R, et al: Conduction aphasia: A clinicopathological study . Arch Neurol 1973;28:339-346.Crossref 15. Kohn SE, Goodglass H: Picture-naming in aphasia . Brain Lang 1985;24:266-283.Crossref 16. Goodglass H, Kaplan E, Weintraub S, et al: The 'tip-of-the-tongue' phenomenon in aphasia . Cortex 1976;12:145-153.Crossref

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Archives of Neurology – American Medical Association

Published: Jun 1, 1986

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