Pure Alexia

Letter-by-letter Reading A Special Issue of the Journal Cognitive Neuropsychology

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  • Price: $95.00 $85.50
  • Hardback: pages
  • Published: November 2004
  • ISBN: 978-0-86377-999-2
  • Publisher: Garland Science

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Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Pure alexia was the first specific form of acquired dyslexia (reading impairment caused by brain damage) to have been clearly identified; this was done by the French neurologist Dejerine more than a century ago. It has also been called word-form blindness, alexia without agraphia and, more recently, letter-by-letter reading. Despite its venerable history, it has not been much studied in detail until the past decade, which has seen a great deal of research on it. This volume surveys recent and current research, with particular emphasis on three fundamental questions: what implications does this disorder have for models of the normal reading process, what does it tell us about the neuroanatomy of the reading system, and what does it tell us about the language capabilities of the right cerebral hemisphere?

Table of Contents

Contents: M. Coltheart, Some Questions About Pure Alexia: Letter-by-Letter Reading. M. Behrmann, D.C. Plaut, J. Nelson, A Literature Review and New Data Supporting an Interactive Account of Letter-by-Letter Reading. M. Arguin, D. Bub, J. Bowers, Extent and Limits of Covert Lexical Activation in Letter-by-Letter Reading. M. Montant, T.A. Nazir, M. Poncet, Pure Alexia and the Viewing Position Effect in Printed Words. E.M. Saffran, H. B. Coslett, Implicit vs. Letter-by-Letter Reading in Pure Alexia: A Tale of Two Systems. D. Chialant, A. Caramazza, Perceptual and Lexical Factors in a Case of Letter-by-Letter Reading. M. Miozzo, A. Caramazza, Varieties of Pure Alexia: The Case of Failure to Access Graphemic Representations.