Receptive+Aphasia

When the posterior portion of the left auditory association area is damaged there results severe receptive aphasia i.e. Wernicke's aphasia.

Symptoms
-Severe comprehension deficits -Difficulty with expressive speech, reading, writing, repeating, word finding, etc. -Spontaneous speech may be fluent: speaking at an increased rate and seem unable to bring sentences to an end --as if the temporal-sequential separations between words have been extremely shortened or in some instances abolished. (may be referred to as fluent aphasia) -Spoken words may be contaminated by neologistic and paraphasic distortions making it incomprehensible -Unable to perceive spoken words in their correct order -Cannot identify the pattern of presentation (e.g. two short and three long taps) and become easily overwhelmed