Spelling dyslexia: A deficit of the visual word-form

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Abstract

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.

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Warrington, E. K., & Langdon, D. (1994). Spelling dyslexia: A deficit of the visual word-form. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 57(2), 211–216. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.57.2.211

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