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Todd E. Feinberg, MD; Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, PhD; Kenneth M. Heilman, MD

Arch Neurol. 1986;43(6):591-593.

Abstract
• It has been suggested by Kurt Goldstein, MD, that conduction aphasia is a disturbance of "inner speech." We tested this hypothesis in five patients who had conduction aphasia with similar speech disturbances. The patients were presented with pictures and were required to perform, without overt vocalization, comparisons of word length and homophonic and rhyming matches. Four patients successfully performed such judgments on words they could not vocalize, but one patient could not. These findings suggest that the hypothesis may have been correct for only a subgroup of conduction aphasics. The findings also provide evidence for heterogeneity within the class of conduction aphasia.

Author Affiliations
From the Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 6, 1985.

Reprint requests to the Department of Neurology, Box J-236, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610 (Dr Heilman).