Foveal crowding in posterior cortical atrophy: A specific early-visual-processing deficit affecting word reading

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 843-866

  Crutch, Sebastian ^a   Warrington, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Early visual processing; Foveal crowding; Peripheral dyslexia; Posterior cortical atrophy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 37749028345     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701754240     Document Type: Article

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