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comparatively showing their little importance in the left
hemisphere lesions.
Auditory discrimination is altered in the 26.8%, all of
them with postrolandic parietotemporal lesions.
Musical alterations are rare in Broca having rhythmic
alterations the 35% of them and melodic alterations the
28,5%.
Wernicke aphasias show alterations in the rhythmic
aspect and auditory discrimination in half of the patients.
The greatest musical function alterations appear in
global aphasias being involved the rhythmic aspects in
the 88,8% of the patients.
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