Top-down and bottom-up effects in pure alexia: Evidence from eye movements

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2246-2257

  Johnson, Rebecca L ^a   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Letter by letter reading; Pure alexia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; READING; WORD RECOGNITION;

DYSLEXIA; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247558031     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.02.026     Document Type: Article

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