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He showed no difficulty in copying characters either in kanji or kana.

As this illustrative case demonstrates, the most conspicuous linguistic symptom of Gogi aphasia manifests itself in the patient’s verbal behavior. A typical patient would spontaneously respond to a question by picking up and repeating the substantive word in the question he does not understand. This peculiar verbal behavior was repeatedly confirmed and emphasized as a hallmark of Gogi aphasia by later researchers [7, 8]. The author’s experience coincides with the opinion [9].

Thus, the patient could grasp an acoustic form of the word quite easily but could not understand what it means. His spontaneous tendency to repeat the word suggests he is trying to stabilize the sound image of the word in his mind. Imura insisted this difficulty in grasping word meaning in the face of normal capacity to grasp its sound form is an isolated difficulty because their ability to deal with syntax is intact. Later studies support this claim [8, 10].