We describe a patient who developed bilateral temporal lesions due to a haemorrhagic stroke. One year after onset, he showed marked apperceptive prosopagnosia and could not name people from their voices, although he had spared semantic knowledge about people he could not name and could access this knowledge from people's voice. Importantly, the patient was able to retrieve proper name of persons after their description and was able to name sounds and songs; he could also retrieve proper names of monuments, towns and cartoon characters upon visual presentation. No further relevant cognitive impairment was present. This clinical picture represents the auditory counterpart of prosopanomia and could be defined ‘phonoanomia’. This case report suggests that naming people from their voice implies specific retrieval processes, and pose specific constraints to theoretical models of person recognition.

我们描述了一名因出血性中风而出现双侧颞叶病变的患者。发病一年后，他表现出明显的感知面容失认症，无法通过声音命名人，尽管他保留了关于他无法命名的人的语义知识，并且可以从人的声音中获取这些知识。重要的是，患者能够在描述后检索人名，并能够命名声音和歌曲；他还可以通过视觉呈现来检索纪念碑、城镇和卡通人物的专有名称。不存在进一步的相关认知障碍。这种临床表现代表了听觉盲症的对应物，可以定义为“语音盲症”。该案例报告表明，从人的声音中命名意味着特定的检索过程，