| Next time I hear that crabby, accusatory voice, I'm going to pretend I've contracted a sudden case of selective deafness. |
| Cortical deafness is essentially the combination of word deafness and auditory agnosia. |
| Pure word deafness can arise from a problem at any point of the process of auditory encoding for speech. |
| The findings have important implications for our conceptualization of pure word deafness and its subtypes. |
| The main symptoms are sudden, severe dizziness, partial deafness, sounds in the ear and jerky eye movements. |
| Patients with pure word deafness have highly selective auditory perception problems. |
