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Sentence comprehension in aphasics: Results of administration of the “Three‐Figures‐Test” (DFT) *
Author(s) -
PEUSER GÜNTER,
SCHRIEFERS HERBERT
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828009112540
Subject(s) - psychology , comprehension , aphasia , sentence , audiology , test (biology) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , linguistics , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , biology
Summary Sentence comprehension has been analyzed in 50 German speaking aphasics by means of the “Three‐Figures‐Test”. The patients belonged to the five major clinical groups of LEISCHNER's classification: amnestic (10), motor‐amnestic (=Broca) (10), sensory‐amnestic (=Wernicke) (10), mixed (10) and total (global) (10). The 50 cases were predominantly of vascular origin (44), and inpatients of the Aphasia Clinic at Bonn. Quantitative analysis of the data showed a significant decrease of comprehension in the order: amnestic, motor‐amnestic and sensory‐amnestic, mixed and total. The Broca and Wernicke groups were comparable as to comprehension impairment on the DFT. A cut‐off score of eight errors distinguished significantly between a “low” and a “high” comprehension group. The borderline between these two groups cut across the Broca and the Wernicke groups. Qualitative error analysis showed that the high and the low comprehension groups differed in the relation of lexical and syntactical errors. The results of this study indicate a relatively good correspondence between disorders of expression and reception in these 50 cases.