Abstract
Nonlinguistic auditory capabilities were assessed through psychophysical tests in 11 left-CVA aphasic, four right-CVA nonaphasic, and eight normal male subjects selected from the same age group. The tests included frequency discrimination, gap detection, gap discrimination, frequency sweep discrimination, assessment of the magnitude of the frequency uncertainty effect in the detectability of tones in noise, and assessment of frequency selectivity through simultaneous masked thresholds. Results of these tests were compared to measures of auditory comprehension obtained from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, the Porch Index of Communicative Ability, and the Token Test. Nonlinguistic auditory performance of the three subject groups differed significantly from each other. For the left-CVA subjects, frequency sweep discrimination, frequency discrimination, and the frequency uncertainty effect in tone-in-noise detection were the best predictors of verbal auditory comprehension. The right-CVA subjects displayed marked deficits with regard to all pitch-related tests. The findings stress the importance of considering the presence of nonlinguistic auditory dysfunctions when evaluating linguistic auditory capabilities in aphasia.
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