Varieties of alexia

Benson, D. Frank; Brown, John E.; Tomlinson, E. B.

doi:10.1212/wnl.21.9.951

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“…A difference in reading performance when stimuli do or do not have meaning has often been reported in some varieties of alexia (Alajouanine et al, 1960;Benson et al, 1971; Dubois-Charlier, 1972;Gardner and Zurif, 1975;Kremin and Dubois-Charlier, 1976; Benson, 1977). Stimuli with little or no meaning (letters, non-words, and grammatical words) are misread, while meaningful stimuli, such as nouns, are read better.…”

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Phonological processing in reading: data from alexia

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Phonological processing in reading: data from alexia

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A variety of alexia has been demonstrated that can be distinguished from the two classically recognized types of alexia. This reading disorder is seen in patients with a dominant frontal lobe pathologic condition that has produced a motor language disturbance (Broca aphasia) and is sufficiently disabling to deserve consideration as a variety of alexia. Functionally, the frontal reading disturbance differs from the other two types in that the patient comprehends meaningful content words better than relational or syntactic structures. Four factors that may underly frontal alexia have been noted: (1) gaze paresis, (2) inability to maintain verbal sequences; (3) inability to comprehend syntactic structure, and (4) literal alexia.

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