patient with left visual neglect following a right hemisphere infarction is described. When presented with isolated words and nonwords, she made left neglect errors in reading aloud, but not in direct copying. This finding suggests a distinction between two ways of processing orthographic stimuli: depending on the task, the unit of processing can be the letter string or the single letter. In reading, the letter string is treated as a whole while in copying it is processed element-by-element. Left neglect differentially affects the processing of single words: in reading errors involve the left, initial letters, while in copying they involve the single letters, or the left part of the letters, independently of their position within the stimulus.
Titolo: | Dissociation between word reading and word copying in a patient with left visual neglect |
Autori: | Cubelli, Roberto; L., Simoncini |
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Titolo del periodico: | CORTEX |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 1997 |
Numero e parte del fascicolo: | no. 1 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/92252 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 03.1 Articolo su rivista (Journal article) |