What Is Receptive Aphasia?

Receptive aphasia occurs due to impaired speech and auditory centers (located at the parietal, occipital, and superior temporal gyrus at the intersection of the temporal lobe).

Receptive aphasia

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Receptive aphasia occurs due to impaired speech and auditory centers (located at the parietal, occipital, and superior temporal gyrus at the intersection of the temporal lobe).

nickname

Sensory aphasia

English name

receptive aphasia

Common symptoms

Able to hear sounds, normal hearing organs, but unable to distinguish speech, lost ability to understand words

Contagious

Non-contagious

The symptom is that the patient can hear the sound, the hearing organ is normal, but cannot distinguish the speech, and loses the ability to understand words.

This was discovered by German scholar Wernicke (C.) in 1874, so the speech and auditory center is also called the Wernicke center.

Receptive aphasia: also known as receptive aphasia. It is also known as receptive aphasia. It is located in the Wenicken's area and the auditory communication area. After the connection with the speech center is interrupted, it prevents the activation of the auditory word "image" The feature is that the patient's hearing is normal, but he cannot understand the meaning of others' comments.Although he has the ability to speak, the vocabulary and grammatical errors are disordered.

"Difficulty in speaking comprehension" is the most prominent symptom. In severe cases, it can not even understand simple sentences such as tongue extension, mouth opening, and eyes closure. Disorders, disordered sentences, disordered grammatical relationships, and unawareness of their own speech errors, often spontaneous language increases. Mild patients can understand short sentences commonly used in daily life, but they cannot understand more complex sentences.