Visuoperceptual deficits in letter-by-letter reading?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1733-1744

  Mycroft, Rachel H ^a   Behrmann, Marlene ^b   Kay, Janice ^c  

^a SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lesion; Letter by letter; Neuropsychology; Perceptual impairment; Pure alexia; Reading

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LETTER BY LETTER READING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 63449127153     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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