Intellectual Activity in Patients with Semantic and Motor Afferent Aphasia

Abstract

The goal of the study is to analyse the defects of intellectual activity in patients with aphasia. The Scheme for evaluation of Intellectual Activity was applied to four Spanish speaking patients with vascular accidents: two patients with semantic and two with motor afferent aphasia. The Scheme includes items of work with texts and pictures. The analyses showed the defects of the operation of synthesis in motor afferent aphasia and of planning and organising activity in semantic aphasia. All patients required of the external orientation base of action. The results are discussed in terms of the neuropsychological mechanisms of factor of each form of aphasia and of the structure of activity. The authors conclude that external helping is useful as the method of rehabilitation in these types of aphasia.