There are three primary distinctions of auditory agnosia that fall into two categories.

A seventy-four year old man named "M" had a special case of auditory agnosia.

His condition was very rare because auditory agnosia for nonverbal sounds is usually associated with the right side of the brain.

Perception of dynamic acoustic patterns by an individual with unilateral verbal auditory agnosia.

This type of auditory agnosia is caused by lesions to the right hemisphere of the brain.

Persons with auditory agnosia can physically hear the sounds and describe them using unrelated terms, but are unable to recognize them.

Music agnosia, an auditory agnosia, is a syndrome of selective impairment in music recognition.

Verbal auditory agnosia.

Auditory agnosia is a form of agnosia that manifests primarily in the inability to recognize or differentiate between sounds.

Auditory Agnosia and Amusia.

Classical (or pure) auditory agnosia is an inability to process environmental sounds, such as animal noises, industrial noises, or the like.

Auditory agnosia is caused by damage to the secondary and tertiary auditory cortex of the temporal lobe of the brain.

In his article, Satoh states "when pure word deafness, auditory sound agnosia, and receptive amusia occur simultaneously, the state is called auditory agnosia" (Satoh 2007).

The patchy visual and auditory agnosia of the previous day had lessened but not entirely disappeared, and he was still experiencing difficulty, plagued by strange, abstract sensations of duality.

In addition to verbal and nonverbal auditory agnosia, there are cases of auditory apperceptive agnosia where patients are unable to recognize music in the absence of sensory, intellectual, and verbal impairments.

Phonagnosia is an auditory agnosia, an acquired auditory processing disorder resulting from brain damage, other auditory agnosias include Cortical deafness and Auditory verbal agnosia also known as pure word deafness.

Some examples of specific types of Agnosia include: Visual Agnosia, Auditory Agnosia, Prosopagnosia, Somatosensory agnosia, Simultanagnosia, Apraxia, Associative visual agnosia, etc.

Cortical deafness is an auditory disorder where the patient is unable to hear sounds but has no apparent damage to the anatomy of the human ear (see auditory system), which can be thought of as the combination of auditory verbal agnosia and auditory agnosia.