Abstract
The study investigates the relationship between the performance of stroke patients on tests of perception and language. It has been suggested that stroke patients with left hemisphere damage may perform poorly on tests of visual perception due to language problems affecting their understanding of the task. Results indicated that there was no significant difference between stroke patients with right hemisphere, dysphasic left hemisphere and non-dysphasic left hemisphere damage on perceptual tests. Few significant correlations were found between scores on the perceptual tests and scores on the language tests, suggesting that the poor performance of dysphasic patients cannot be explained by language impairment alone.
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