Developmental and Acquired Dyslexia: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Perspectives (Neuropsychology and Cognition, 9)

This volume on neuropsychological and neurolinguistic perspectives of dyslexia and alexia is based on the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held towards the end of 1991. The book, consisting of sixteen chapters from cognitive neuropsychologists and neurolinguists from different countries, is divided into three parts addressing the following issues: Part I: Neuropsychological substrates; Part II: Case studies, and Part III: Computational and linguistic approaches. The contributors are from England and Wales, different parts of Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Russia. This volume and the companion volume __Reading Disabilities: Diagnosis____and Component Processes__ (Kluwer, 1993) are helpful to researchers in the fields of literacy and cognitive neuropsychology. It is intended for researchers, clinicians, university professors, senior or post-graduate students in psychology, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuropsychology, educational psychology, and special education. It was during a pleasant and warm (both literally and figuratively) two week period in October, 1991 that a number of researchers, scholars and c1inicians from diverse lands gathered at the beautiful Chateau de Bonas, near Toulouse, France to discuss psychological, neuropsychological and neurolinguistic aspects of reading and writing disorders. The occasion for the serious disputations of theories, research findings and c1inical appli cations was the Advanced Study Institute (ASI) under the auspices of the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). There was much sharing of mutual experiences, and considerable debate on some issues. There were also friendly exchanges, 'international' ping-pong, tennis matches, and bicyc1e races, and even some convivial ity akin to that of a c1ass reunion with members telling their stories of yesterday and visions of tomorrow. All these serious scientific disputations and the friendly exchanges would not have been possible without the major assistance from NATO and other institutions and individuals. We wish to express our deep appre ciation to Dr. L. v. da Cunha ofNATO Scientific Affairs Division, Dr. Tilo Kester and Mrs. Barbara Kester of the International Transfer of Science and Technology (ITST) for their active support and substantial assistance throughout the Advanced Study Institute; Mr. Charles Stockman and his staff of the Chateau de Bonas for looking after our stay there; Christi Martin and Xi-Wu Feng of Oklahoma State University, and the University of Saskatchewan generally for facilitating our work Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-7 Brain Morphology and Neurolinguistic Relationships in Developmental Dyslexia....Pages 9-31 The Willing Brain of Dyslexic Children....Pages 33-39 Differences in Components of Word Recognition between P- and L-Type Reading Disability....Pages 41-50 Speed of Visual Information Processing in Developmental Dyslexia....Pages 51-59 Neuropsychological Profiles of Persistent Reading Disability and Reading Improvement....Pages 61-77 Influence of Literacy (vs Illiteracy) on the Characteristics of Acquired Aphasia in Adults....Pages 79-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-99 Semantic Errors and Free Word Associations: Some Remarks on Lexical Search Activity in Stabilized Aphasia....Pages 101-119 Apropos Imageability....Pages 121-129 Lexical Agraphia in a Young Man with Multifocal Brain-Injuries: A Danish Case Study....Pages 131-148 Classification of Normal Reading Error Types....Pages 149-157 Landau—Kleffner Syndrome: A Neuronal Maturation Deficit?....Pages 159-166 Front Matter....Pages 167-174 Connectionism and the New Alexia....Pages 175-193 A Computational Approach to Dyslexic Reading and Spelling....Pages 195-219 Morphology in Skilled Word Recognition....Pages 221-236 Processing of English Morphological Structure by Poor Readers....Pages 237-261 Individual Differences in Similarity Judgements....Pages 263-285 Back Matter....Pages 287-291

This volume on neuropsychological and neurolinguistic perspectives of dyslexia and alexia is based on the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held towards the end of 1991.
The book, consisting of sixteen chapters from cognitive neuropsychologists and neurolinguists from different countries, is divided into three parts addressing the following issues: Part I: Neuropsychological substrates; Part II: Case studies, and Part III: Computational and linguistic approaches. The contributors are from England and Wales, different parts of Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Russia.
This volume and the companion volume Reading Disabilities: Diagnosis and Component Processes (Kluwer, 1993) are helpful to researchers in the fields of literacy and cognitive neuropsychology. It is intended for researchers, clinicians, university professors, senior or post-graduate students in psychology, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuropsychology, educational psychology, and special education.