Phonagnosia

Phonagnosia

Phonagnosia is an inability to recognize familiar voices in the absence of hearing impairment, hence a form of auditory agnosia. The patient can recognize and understand words and sentences (cf. pure word deafness). Phonagnosia is the equivalent in the auditory domain of prosopagnosia in the visual domain. The neuroanatomical substrate is thought to be right parietal lobe pathology.

Cross References

Agnosia; Auditory agnosia; Prosopagnosia; Pure word deafness