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Volpato, Chiara; Bencini, Giulia; Meneghello, Francesca; Piron, Lamberto; Semenza, Carlo – Brain and Language, 2012
This study describes the case of a global alexic patient with a severe reading deficit affecting words, letters and Arabic numbers, following a left posterior lesion. The patient (VA) could not match spoken letters to their graphic form. A preserved ability to recognize shape and canonical orientation of letters indicates intact access to the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Numbers, Reading Ability, Patients
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Capitani, Erminio; Rosci, Chiara; Saetti, Maria Cristina; Laiacona, Marcella – Neuropsychologia, 2009
In this study we contrasted the Category fluency and Letter fluency performance of 198 normal subjects, 57 Alzheimer's patients and 57 patients affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). The aim was to check whether, besides the prevalence of Category fluency deficit often reported among Alzheimer's patients, the TBI group presented the opposite…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Alzheimers Disease, Injuries, Patients