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Понимание речи на различных языковых уровнях у пациентов с височной эпилепсией
The goal of the present study was to investigate speech comprehension in patients with left or right temporal epilepsy at three language levels: single words, sentences and discourse. According to the results, no difference was found between patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and healthy Russian speakers in single word comprehension. However, patients with temporal lobe epilepsy showed significant difficulties in sentence and discourse comprehension as compared to the control group, irrespective of lateralization of the epileptogenic focus. The two groups of patients did not differ in speech comprehension at any language level. The observed results may be related to the involvement of both temporal lobes in language processing and to the decline in other cognitive abilities in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.