Recovery in a letter-by-letter reader: More efficiency at the expense of normal reading strategy

Neurocase

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 236-255

  Ablinger, Irene ^a   Huber, Walter ^a   Schattka, Kerstin I ^a   Radach, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Letter by letter; Pure alexia; Reading strategy; Recovery process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; DISEASE COURSE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIMETRY; PRODUCTIVITY; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DYSLEXIA; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84879547847     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2012.667119     Document Type: Article

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