Visual processing in pure alexia: A case study

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 242-255

  Starrfelt, Randi ^a   Habekost, Thomas ^a   Gerlach, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Letter identification; Number reading; Object recognition; Pure alexia; Theory of Visual Attention (TVA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DRAWING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; REHABILITATION CARE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALEXIA, PURE; ART; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; WRITING;

EID: 74249101294     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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