Letter And Word Recognition In Pure Alexia And Peripheral Vision
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Letter And Word Recognition In Pure Alexia And Peripheral Vision. / Starrfelt, Randi.
2018. 184 Abstract fra International meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Amsterdam, Holland.Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Konferenceabstrakt til konference › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Letter And Word Recognition In Pure Alexia And Peripheral Vision
AU - Starrfelt, Randi
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Pure alexia, or alexia without agraphia, is a curious neuropsychological syndrome where patients lose the ability to read following focal brain injury, while their written and spoken language is largely intact. Typically, both word and letter recognition is impaired, and some attribute the reading deficit to a problem with single letter recognition, perhaps due to a more general deficit in visual recognition. We have investigated the relationship between letter and word recognition in pure alexia using a word superiority experiment, comparing performance with short words and single letters. I will present data showing that the word recognition deficit in pure alexia is disproportionate to the patients’ problems with single letter recognition, and relate this to findings in central and peripheral vision in normal participants
AB - Pure alexia, or alexia without agraphia, is a curious neuropsychological syndrome where patients lose the ability to read following focal brain injury, while their written and spoken language is largely intact. Typically, both word and letter recognition is impaired, and some attribute the reading deficit to a problem with single letter recognition, perhaps due to a more general deficit in visual recognition. We have investigated the relationship between letter and word recognition in pure alexia using a word superiority experiment, comparing performance with short words and single letters. I will present data showing that the word recognition deficit in pure alexia is disproportionate to the patients’ problems with single letter recognition, and relate this to findings in central and peripheral vision in normal participants
M3 - Conference abstract for conference
SP - 184
T2 - International meeting of the Psychonomics Society
Y2 - 10 May 2018 through 12 May 2018
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