title: Acquired surface alexia in Spanish: a case report.
abstract: This paper reports a case study of acquired surface alexia in Spanish and discusses the most suitable tests to detect this syndrome in a writing system that is very regular for reading at the segmental and supra-segmental levels. Patient MM has surface alexia characterized by quantitatively good performance in reading words and pseudowords; accurate but slow and syllabic reading of words, nonwords and sentences; good performance in lexical decision tasks including words and nonwords; errors in lexical decision with pseudohomophones; and homophone confusions. This pattern of reading can be interpreted as a disorder in the lexical reading route and overdependence on the non-lexical route. We discuss nonlexical impairments and the interpretation of alexia and suggest tasks to identify surface alexia in a shallow orthography.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. aferrere@psi.uba.ar
authors.forename: Aldo R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Ferreres
authors.forename: Macarena Martinez
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cuitiño
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Olmedo
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications; D004411:Dyslexia, Acquired / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010700:Phonetics; D013030:Spain