When does less yield more? The impact of severity upon implicit recognition in pure alexia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2437-2446

  Roberts, Daniel J ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Woollams, Anna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frequency; Imageability; Implicit recognition; Letter by letter reading; Pure alexia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION; COMPLICATION; DYSLEXIA; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77954460076     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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