Auditory Agnosia

Auditory agnosia is a neurological condition in which a person can hear sounds perfectly well but cannot recognize or tell apart what they are hearing, typically as the result of bilateral damage to the anterior superior temporal gyrus, part of the brain pathway responsible for identifying the meaning of sounds. A person with the condition might, for example, hear a car engine and describe it as sounding like a lion roaring, without recognizing it as a car; reading, writing and speaking remain unaffected, and many patients compensate by relying more heavily on lip-reading. The condition covers several related disorders, including pure word deafness, non-verbal auditory agnosia, amusia, the loss of music perception, and word-meaning deafness, and remains rare enough that only around two hundred documented cases had been reported in the medical literature as of 2014. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/