RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Spelling dyslexia: a deficit of the visual word-form.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 211
OP 216
DO 10.1136/jnnp.57.2.211
VO 57
IS 2
A1 E K Warrington
A1 D Langdon
YR 1994
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/57/2/211.abstract
AB A patient with spelling dyslexia read both words and text accurately but slowly and laboriously letter by letter. Her performance on a test of lexical decision was slow. She had great difficulty in detecting a 'rogue' letter attached to the beginning or end of a word--for example, ksong--or in parsing two unspaced words, such as applepeach. By contrast she was immune to the effects of interpolating extraneous coloured letters in a word, a manipulation that affects normal readers. Therefore it is argued that this patient had damage to an early stage in the reading process, to the visual word form itself.