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Understanding Concepts and Spatial Relations in People with Brain Damage

OBJECTIVES: The survey is directed to the determination of differences in auditory and visual processing in people with brain damage. We also want to see what influence ; different brain damage has in understanding concepts and in understanding spatial relations. Purpose of this study was to determine if there are differences in processing auditory and visually presented concepts and spatial relations in people with aphasia and in people with TBI. And, to notice differences between auditory processing of concepts and spatial relations or between visual processing of concepts and spatial relations. MATERIAL & METHODS: The survey comprised 22 persons with brain damage, aged between 19 and 66. According to the cause of damage, they were divided in 2 groups. First group comprised 11 persons with aphasia, aged between 44 and 66, and the second group comprised 11 persons with TBI, aged between 19 and 54. According to speech therapist’s findings all examinees had speech and language difficulties. Some subtests of PALPA were used for this research. Basic statistics was made for all variables. Differences between variables among the groups were estimated by T-Test for Independent Variables and by Paired Samples T-Test. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS: All examinees have shown best results in first auditory understanding of concepts, and the worst results in visual understanding of spatial relations. Better results were achieved in understanding concepts than in understanding spatial relations. Better results in people with aphasia are in accordance with past experience about poor spatial orientation, difficulties in visuo-spatial processing and in short term memory in people with TBI.

Spatial relations; Concepts; Aphasia; TBI; Auditory understanding

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