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Alexia

Known as: Alexias, Text blindness, Word blindness 
An acquired type of sensory aphasia where damage to the brain leads to the loss of the ability to read. [HPO:probinson]
National Institutes of Health

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1935-2018
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Dyslexia
Primary visual agnosia

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1936-2018
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Alexia
Dyslexia
Primary visual agnosia

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
The unique role of the visual word form area in reading.
Reading systematically activates the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus, at a site known as the visual word form area (VWFA… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Pure alexia as a disconnection syndrome: new diffusion imaging evidence for an old concept.
Functional neuroimaging and studies of brain-damaged patients made it possible to delineate the main components of the cerebral… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Visual word recognition in the left and right hemispheres: anatomical and functional correlates of peripheral alexias.
According to a simple anatomical and functional model of word reading, letters displayed in one hemifield are first analysed… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area.
The first steps in the process of reading a printed word belong to the domain of visual object perception. They culminate in a… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Disruption of posterior brain systems for reading in children with developmental dyslexia.
BACKGROUND Converging evidence indicates a functional disruption in the neural systems for reading in adults with dyslexia. We… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The functional anatomy of single-word reading in patients with hemianopic and pure alexia.
We investigated single-word reading in normal subjects and patients with alexia following a left occipital infarct, using PET… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Alexia for Braille following bilateral occipital stroke in an early blind woman.
Recent functional imaging and neurophysiologic studies indicate that the occipital cortex may play a role in Braille reading in… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Visual complexity in letter-by-letter reading: "pure" alexia is not pure.
Standard accounts of pure alexia have favoured the view that this acquired disorder of reading arises from damage to a left… (More)
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Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
The anatomic basis of pure alexia.
The behavioral and anatomic correlates of pure alexia were analyzed in 16 patients. Right homonymous hemianopia failed to appear… (More)
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Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Phonological alexia: three dissociations.
Three dissociations were observed in a case of alexia: a disturbance of reading, without comparable disturbance of oral… (More)
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