Conduction aphasia has fluent speech and good comprehension but impaired repetition.

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Conduction aphasia has fluent speech and good comprehension but impaired repetition.

This item tests how language functions can be dissociated across production, comprehension, and repetition. In conduction aphasia, speech is fluent, comprehension is good, but repetition is impaired. This pattern arises from damage to the arcuate fasciculus, the pathway linking Wernicke’s area (understanding) with Broca’s area (speaking). With this disconnection, a person can understand and generate spontaneous speech, but cannot accurately repeat heard speech because the auditory information can’t be efficiently transmitted to the speech-production system for imitation. Other patterns don’t match as precisely: anomic aphasia features fluent speech and good comprehension but naming difficulties; Wernicke’s aphasia yields fluent but meaningfully impaired speech with poor comprehension (and often poor repetition); Broca’s aphasia leads to nonfluent speech with relatively preserved comprehension, and repetition is typically impaired due to production problems. The described combination—fluency with good comprehension but broken repetition—fits conduction aphasia best.

This item tests how language functions can be dissociated across production, comprehension, and repetition. In conduction aphasia, speech is fluent, comprehension is good, but repetition is impaired. This pattern arises from damage to the arcuate fasciculus, the pathway linking Wernicke’s area (understanding) with Broca’s area (speaking). With this disconnection, a person can understand and generate spontaneous speech, but cannot accurately repeat heard speech because the auditory information can’t be efficiently transmitted to the speech-production system for imitation.

Other patterns don’t match as precisely: anomic aphasia features fluent speech and good comprehension but naming difficulties; Wernicke’s aphasia yields fluent but meaningfully impaired speech with poor comprehension (and often poor repetition); Broca’s aphasia leads to nonfluent speech with relatively preserved comprehension, and repetition is typically impaired due to production problems. The described combination—fluency with good comprehension but broken repetition—fits conduction aphasia best.

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