Mechanisms of pure alexia: Spatially based impairment, letter identification deficit, or both?

Neurocase

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 164-176

  Bachoud Lévi, Anne Catherine ^a,b   Bartolomeo, Paolo ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Letter identification; Spatially based impairment; Word reading

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALEXIA; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARALLEL DESIGN; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PREDICTION; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISORDER; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0041869594     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/neur.9.2.164.15069     Document Type: Article

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