Abstract
A brain-damaged subject is described whose pattern of performance in various reading tasks can be explained by proposing damage at a level of the word recognition process in which a representation with stimulus-centered, rather than retinal- or word-centered, coordinates is processed. Analysis of her reading performance as a function of topographical arrangement of letters, position of errors in the letter string, and the effects of letter spacing and of adding a prefix or suffix provide evidence not only for the existence of this level of representation (the letter-shape map in a model proposed by Caramazza and Hillis [3]), but also for specific assumptions about its functioning and structure.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1223-1240 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Neuropsychologia |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1991 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Behavioral Neuroscience
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Hillis, A. E., & Caramazza, A. (1991). Deficit to stimulus-centered, letter shape representations in a case of "unilateral neglect". Neuropsychologia, 29(12), 1223-1240. https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(91)90036-8