A visual disorder producing highly selective deletion of recurring letters

Cortex

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 471-485

  Weddell, Rodger A ^a,b  

^a MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Alexia; Attention; Vision disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION DISORDER; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 21644439629     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70188-6     Document Type: Article

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