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Di Pietro, Marie; Ptak, Radek; Schnider, Armin – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Patients with letter-by-letter alexia may have residual access to lexical or semantic representations of words despite severely impaired overt word recognition (reading). Here, we report a multilingual patient with severe letter-by-letter alexia who rapidly identified the language of written words and sentences in French and English while he had…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Written Language, Multilingualism
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Proverbio, Alice M.; Zani, Alberto; Adorni, Roberta – Neuropsychologia, 2008
The recent neuroimaging literature gives conflicting evidence about whether the left fusiform gyrus (FG) might recognize words as unitary visual objects. The sensitivity of the left FG to word frequency might provide a neural basis for the orthographic input lexicon theorized by reading models [Patterson, K., Marshall, J. C., & Coltheart, M.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Semantics, Dyslexia, Word Recognition