Abstract:This study investigates the lexical-semantic and phonological processing deficits in Wernicke's aphasia by comparing with healthy controls aiming to shed light on the causes of impairment. Identifying and Picture-Naming, Lexical-Semantic Association and Rhyme Recognition Tests were used to assess the processing. The results showed that Wernicke's aphasics have the inability to retrieve a name associated with a picture but they were able to match the semantic prime with the associated target image similar to th… Show more
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