Intact verbal description of letters with diminished awareness of their forms

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 782-786

  Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Yamadori, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alexia; Blindsight; Consciousness; Letter discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; AMNESIA; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SUBICULUM; TACHISTOSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AWARENESS; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0034068679     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.6.782     Document Type: Article

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