Understanding language
Auditory and written comprehension
Also searched as Auditory and written comprehension.
In depth
A subdomain of language: understanding what is said and written. Severely impaired in Wernicke's aphasia even while speech remains fluent — fluent output, no comprehension.
What drives it
Word & fact memory increases it.
reduced expressive and receptive vocabulary, anomia, impaired confrontation naming and single-word comprehension. Verbatim from the source for this edge —. PMC6493106
What it drives
It increases Language.
The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Language comprises object naming, word finding, fluency, grammar and syntax, and receptive language. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181
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