Un caso de amusia cortical en una paciente con habilidad musical
Clinical case. A woman who had previously had musical ability presented with bilateral embolic damage to both superior temporal convolutions. For the first few days, she had complete cortical deafness with reception aphasia. This evolved to a slight Wernicke’s aphasia and reception amusia. The amusia was characterized by inability to understand lyrics and tunes, and in this patient has persisted a year and a half later. Conclusions. It is postulated that the inability to understand the words of songs is due to damage to the first left temporal convolution, whilst the amusia of tunes is due to damage to the first right temporal convolution
Conclusiones Se postula que la incapacidad para comprender la letra de las canciones se debe al daño de la primera circunvolución temporal izquierda mientras que la amusia a las melodías es debida al daño de la primera circunvolución temporal derecha