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From deep dyslexia to agrammatic comprehension on silent reading

Rosenthal, Victor and Dési, Martine (2005) From deep dyslexia to agrammatic comprehension on silent reading. [Journal (Paginated)]

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We report on a case of a French-speaking patient whose performance on reading aloud single words was characteristically deep dyslexic (in spite of preserved ability to identify letters), and whose comprehension on silent sentence reading was agrammatic and strikingly poorer than on oral reading. The first part of the study is mainly informative as regards (i) the relationship between letter identification, semantic paralexias and the ability to read nonwords, (ii) the differential character of silent and oral reading tasks, and (iii) the potential modality-dependent character of the deficits in comprehension encountered. In the second part of the study we examine the patient's sensitivity to verb-noun ambiguity and probe her skills in the comprehension of indexical structures by exploring her ability to cope with number agreement and temporal and prepositional relations. The results indicate the patient's sensitivity to certain dimensions of these linguistic categories, reveal a partly correct basis for certain incorrect responses, and, on the whole, favor a definition of the patient's disorders in terms of a deficit in integrating indexical information in language comprehension. More generally, the present study substantiates a microgenetic approach to neuropsychology, where the pathological behavior due to brain damage is described as an arrest of microgenesis at an early stage of development, so that patient's responses take the form of unfinished "products" which would normally undergo further development.

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:compensatory process, indexicality, microgenesis, reading, agrammatism, deep dyslexia
Subjects:Neuroscience > Neurolinguistics
Psychology > Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience > Neuropsychology
ID Code:6267
Deposited By: Rosenthal, Victor
Deposited On:23 Nov 2008 09:22
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:57

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