An eye movement study on the role of the visual field defect in pure alexia

Pure alexia is a severe impairment of word reading which is usually accompanied by a right-sided visual field defect. Patients with pure alexia exhibit better preserved writing and a considerable word length effect, claimed to result from a serial letter processing strategy. Two experiments compared...

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Main Authors: Bormann, Tobias, Wolfer, Sascha A, Hachmann, Wibke, Lagrèze, Wolf A, Konieczny, Lars
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Alexia, Pure - diagnostic imaging
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Humans
Information processing
Linguistics
Medicine and Health Sciences
Middle Aged
Patients
Qualitative analysis
Reaction Time
Reading
Saccades
Social Sciences
Strategy
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Visual field
Visual Fields
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Biology and Life Sciences
Defects
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Eye Movements
Fixation
Fixation, Ocular
Humans
Information processing
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Reaction Time
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Saccades
Social Sciences
Strategy
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Visual field
Visual Fields
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