Auditory Agnosia and its effects on language, hearing and speech (eBook)

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, University of Augsburg, course: Linguistics: Synchronic Studies - Neurolinguistics, language: English, abstract: Agnosia is a neurological disorder that results in an inability to recognize certain objects, persons, smells, or sounds despite normally functioning visual and/or auditory senses; for example they are not able to identify a sound as a sneeze or an object as an apple. It also can be classified as having trouble processing sensory information, like touch, sound, and even light. Agnosia is normally restricted to one sensory modality like vision or hearing and these deficits are not due to memory loss. It can result from strokes, traumatic brain injury, dementia, a tumor, developmental disorders, overexposure to environmental toxins (e.g., carbon monoxide poisoning), or other neurological conditions. Symptoms may vary, according to the area of the brain that is affected. With agnosia the brain develops these lesions that are caused by neurological ailments or even a traumatic brain injury either in the temporal, occipital, or parietal lobe of the brain.
For better understanding this paper will briefly summarize the different types of agnosia.