Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying reading and naming: Evidence from letter-by-letter reading and optic aphasia

Neurocase

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 325-337

  Marsh, Elisabeth B ^a   Hillis, Argye E ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

APHASIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; DYSLEXIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; WRITING;

EID: 27944465016     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790591006320     Document Type: Article

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