Do patients with pure alexia suffer from a specific word form processing deficit? Evidence from 'wrods with trasnpsoed letetrs'

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1294-1301

  Pflugshaupt, Tobias ^a,b   Suchan, Julia ^a   Mandler, Marc André ^a   Sokolov, Alexander N ^c,d   Trauzettel Klosinski, Susanne ^c   Karnath, Hans Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Letter position encoding; Letter transposition; Pure alexia; Reading; Visual word form

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; READING; SPEECH DISORDER; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGED; ALEXIA, PURE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79954423346     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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