Auditory pattern recognition abilities of aphasic and normal subjects: A preliminary study
Authors:
Paul H. Ptacek
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Eastern Washington State College, USA
Dartmouth Medical School, USA
Abstract:
A comparison of the ability of aphasic and normal subjects to recognize three element auditory patterns of duration was made under the following conditions: monaural right, monaural left; split left leading and split right leading: dichotic. There were eight possible combinations of elements for each condition. In all conditions the normal group clearly outperformed the aphasic subjects with practically no overlap in their performances. Implications of using nonlinguistic stimuli for testing aphasic individuals, assessing progress, and training in pattern recognition is discussed.