Impaired naming and preserved reading: a complete dissociation.
This study examines the relationship between reading and naming in an anomic patient whose verbal comprehension skills were intact. In spite of very poor naming skills, his ability to read irregular words was well preserved. Moreover, his naming remained impaired in conditions when he had read the same word only a few minutes or even seconds before and there was unexpectedly little overlap between his performance on the two tasks. The implications of these results for current models of reading and naming are discussed.
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National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.
Warrington
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