Right hemisphere reading mechanisms in a global alexic patient

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1459-1476

  Larsen, Jary ^a   Baynes, Kathleen ^a   Swick, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexia; Implicit reading; Letter matching; Lexical decision; Semantic categorization; Spelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; WHITE MATTER;

ANOMIA; APTITUDE; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WRITING;

EID: 3042713905     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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