An inability to identify spoken words, resulting from a brain defect such as Wernicke's aphasia.
辨语聋，听言不能
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Other common names are auditory perception problem, auditory comprehension deficit, central auditory dysfunction, central deafness and so-called ‘word deafness.’
Pure word deafness can arise from a problem at any point of the process of auditory encoding for speech.
Patients with pure word deafness have highly selective auditory perception problems.
The findings have important implications for our conceptualization of pure word deafness and its subtypes.
Cortical deafness is essentially the combination of word deafness and auditory agnosia.
Definition of word deafness in US English:
word deafness
nounwərd ˈdefnəs
An inability to identify spoken words, resulting from a brain defect such as Wernicke's aphasia.
辨语聋，听言不能
Example sentencesExamples
Other common names are auditory perception problem, auditory comprehension deficit, central auditory dysfunction, central deafness and so-called ‘word deafness.’
Patients with pure word deafness have highly selective auditory perception problems.
Pure word deafness can arise from a problem at any point of the process of auditory encoding for speech.
Cortical deafness is essentially the combination of word deafness and auditory agnosia.
The findings have important implications for our conceptualization of pure word deafness and its subtypes.