Auditory processing and aphasia: a systematic review

The auditory processing evaluation is an audiological procedure that provides important information related to the process of understanding linguistic material. Aiming to investigate the research about the interface Auditory Processing - Aphasia a systematic review was made with reference to the following descriptors and their correlates in the English language: Aphasia, Dichotic, Monotic, Auditory Processing and Auditory Abilities. The search was conducted in the intersection format with connective “and”;. The five studies found in this review differ in many aspects such as lesion location, change of hemispheric dominance for language, presence of a left ear advantage in aphasia, relationship between auditory abilities and language and auditory extinction. These papers suggest that the two theoretical approaches on auditory processing and aphasia: localizationist and distributive arguments. Most of papers (three) agree with the distributive argument.