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Corianne Rogalsky1, Eleanor Pitz, Argye E Hillis
1Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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Auditory word comprehension was assessed in a series of 289 acute left hemisphere stroke patients. Participants decided whether an auditorily presented word matched a picture. On different trials, words were presented with a matching picture, a semantic foil, or a phonemic foil. Participants had significantly more trouble with semantic foils across all levels of impairment.
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