A 70-year-old patient presents to the emergency department following a stroke. Post-stroke, the patient exhibits fluent speech that is riddled with paraphasic errors—substituting incorrect words within sentences. Additionally, there is a marked difficulty in understanding spoken language, and the patient is unable to repeat even simple phrases. These clinical features are indicative of Wernicke’s aphasia, a condition resulting from damage to the posterior portion of the left superior temporal gyrus, commonly known as Wernicke’s area. Which of the following is a common additional neurological deficit associated with Wernicke’s aphasia?
