Abstract
Five severe aphasics (including total aphasics) were investigated on auditory and reading comprehension of common nouns, place names, person's names.
The results were similar to those reported by Wapner (1979) that total aphasics could comprehend place names better than common nouns. In addition, we found that severe aphasics were likely to understand person's names better than place names. furthermore, reading comprehension were better than auditory comprehension.
We postulated that as person's and place names were included in proper name which was less meaningful than common nouns : therefore severe aphasics with problem in decoding meaning could comprehend the proper name easily.
