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Anomic aphasia is the language impairment that involves only word finding difficulties or pure anomia in contrast to other forms of aphasia (Goodglass et al., 2001). Other language modalities typically are intact, including auditory comprehension of language, repetition of words and sentences, and spontaneous generation of sentences.
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Anomic aphasia is a form of language disorder associated with acquired brain damage typically affecting the left cerebral hemisphere (Raymer, 2005). Anomic aphasia can be manifest as a difficulty in retrieving specific intended words, often nouns, but sometimes verbs, during the course of sentence generation. The grammatical characteristics of the sentence remain intact. The moments of word retrieval difficulty lead to long pauses, insertion of filler words, or selection of wrong words (paraphasias) during conversation or other word retrieval activities, most commonly in tasks requiring individuals to name pictures. Also...
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Raymer, A. (2011). Anomic Aphasia. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_856
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