title: Cognitive neuropsychological analysis of differential reading and spelling disorder mechanisms in a patient with aphasia.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine if differential reading and spelling mechanisms were involved in a Japanese patient with aphasia. In our case, the patient scored low on all of the administered reading tasks, suggesting that both the reading lexical and non-lexical routes were impaired. In contrast, his writing-to-dictation score for Kana nonwords was high, suggesting that the spelling non-lexical route was intact. However, the patient scored low on a writing-to-dictation task comprised of high-familiarity Kanji words. The spelling lexical route was thought to be impaired. Therefore, the mechanism(s) involved in reading and spelling may differ in this case.
authors.affiliation: a Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences , University of Tsukuba , Tsukuba , Japan.|b Department of Rehabilitation , JCHO Kumamoto general hospital , Yatsushiro , Japan.
authors.forename: Kosei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.affiliation: a Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences , University of Tsukuba , Tsukuba , Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Uno
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D014956:Writing
keywords: Japanese; Reading; aphasia; cognitive neuropsychology; spelling