Learning in dysphasia

The performance of a group of dysphasic patients and of a group of non-dysphasic patients (many of whom had verified unilateral cerebral lesions) was compared on tests of: sentence learning, sentence recall, rhythm learning, rhythm recall, word finding and of non-verbal intelligence. In Experiment II a small group of dysphasic subjects was taught to repeat a sequence of 5 names of objects (immediately after failing to name these 5 objects), and was thereafter tested for the ability to name the objects which previously could not be named.