Improved single-letter identification after whole-word training in pure alexia

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 340-363

  Ablinger, Irene ^a   Domahs, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Letter by letter reading; Therapy intervention; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGNOSIA; ALEXIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLEXIA; HEMIANOPIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; READING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VELOCITY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WHOLE WORD TRAINING; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ALEXIA, PURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 67651111881     PISSN: 09602011     EISSN: 14640694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09602010802204000     Document Type: Article

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