ATTENTION AND ANOSOGNOSIA - THE CASE OF A JARGONAPHASIC PATIENT WITH UNAWARENESS OF LANGUAGE DEFICIT

Some patients with aphasia lack awareness of the language errors they make. We describe a man with undifferentiated jargon-aphasia and prese rved auditory comprehension who was unaware of his speech production e rrors when he had to both speak and listen simultaneously. However, wh en listening to a recording of his speech, he could detect the speech errors he had made. We attribute this patient's unawareness of his spe ech production errors to a reduced attentional capacity for simultaneo us linguistic tasks.