Recent functional imaging studies have referred to a posterior region of the left midfusiform
gyrus as the “visual word form area”(VWFA). We review the evidence for this claim and …

We present a theoretical account of letter-by-letter reading (LBL) that reconciles discrepant
findings associated with this form of acquired dyslexia. We claim that LBL reading is caused …

As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can
be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive …

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review
papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a …

Este libro se ha diseñado específicamente para ser utilizado como libro de texto básico en
neuropsicología. En el capítulo inicial, se presenta una revisión histórica del área …

An up-to-date, integrated analysis of the language disturbances associated with brain
pathology, this book examines the different types of aphasia combining two clinical …

Originally published in 1985, this volume presents the proceedings of the 11th International
Symposium on Attention and Performance. With few exceptions, the central emphasis in …

The patterns of co-occurrence among associative agnosia for faces, words and other objects
are analysed and found to be consistent with the existence of two, rather than three …

A key issue that continues to generate controversy concerns the nature of the psychological,
computational, and neural mechanisms that support the visual recognition of objects such as …

Standard accounts of pure alexia have favoured the view that this acquired disorder of
reading arises from damage to a left posterior occipital cortex mechanism dedicated to the …