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Phonological alexia: The case of the Singing Detective.
Authors:
PATTERSON, K.
Reference:
In E. Funnell (Ed.), Case Studies in the Neuropsychology of Reading. Hove, East Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Year of publication:
2000
CBU number:
3684
Abstract:
This chapter consists of a case report of a patient, CJ, with acquired phonological dyslexia. CJ achieved very poor (though above zero) reading of simple nonwords; his performance in non-reading phonological tasks such as segmentation and blending of spoken words/non words was impaired, though not as severely as in many reported cases of phonological dyslexia; and both his accuracy and RTs for word reading showed a significant impact of word frequency and especially imageability/concreteness. Semantic priming effects of comparable magnitude in word reading and picture naming provided a further demonstration of the impact of semantic processing on CJ’s word reading. CJ’s pattern of reading abilities and deficits are interpreted with reference to current hypotheses about the nature of print-sound translation.