About the role of visual field defects in pure alexia

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1907-1917

  Pflugshaupt, Tobias ^a,b   Gutbrod, Klemens ^a   Wurtz, Pascal ^a   Von Wartburg, Roman ^a   Nyffeler, Thomas ^a   De Haan, Bianca ^b   Karnath, Hans Otto ^b   Mueri, René M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c University Hospital of Psychiatry   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

eye movements; hemianopic dyslexia; pure alexia; reading; visual field defect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA, PURE; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 67650079077     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp141     Document Type: Article

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