paraphasia

“_ -- In this kind of paraphasia in adults the cause is a lack of attention; therefore purely central concentration is wanting, or one fails to "collect himself"; there is distraction, hence the unintentional, frequently unconscious, confounding of words similar in sound or connected merely by remote, often dim, reminiscences.”

The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.

“Tom Whitmore @779 -- That sounds like an example of verbal paraphasia scroll down.”

Making Light: Open thread 135

“Turns out there's a name for this -- a literal paraphasia -- and it's just one kind of "senior moment," an unscientific term for a variety of mental glitches.”

The Wall Street Journal: Behind 'senior moments'

“It looks like a case of iatrogenic paraphasia, perhaps induced by an accidental lesion to the temporal lobe?”

Mind Hacks: Marshall smurf

“In contrast, an out-of-class semantic or verbal paraphasia is so far removed from the actual thing that the utterance seems idiosyncratic and the meaning is obscure: private word usage.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“An in-class semantic (referring to the meaning of words) or verbal paraphasia is a word usage that, although imprecise, remains understandable because the approximate word or phrase relates to some characteristic of the precise word (e.g., its basic function or class).”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry