Aphasia, Dyslexia and the Phonological Coding of Written Words

SAGE Publications - Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 307-318 - 1977
Karalyn Patterson1, Anthony J. Marcel1
1M.R.C. Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, 15 Chaucer Road, CB2 2EF, U.K.

Tóm tắt

A possible account of the reading difficulty of certain aphasic-dyslexic patients includes the notion that they are impaired in translating the written word into a phonological code via grapheme-phoneme conversion rules. This notion was tested in two experiments, both utilizing orthographically regular non-words (like dake) as stimuli. The first experiment provides an analysis of two patients' (largely successful) attempts to repeat non-words, and their (almost totally unsuccessful) attempts to read them. Second, in a lexical decision task (is this written letter-string a word or not?), the finding that normals are slowed by non-words homophonic with real words (like flore) was replicated using a modified technique. This effect, attributable to phonological coding, was not shown by the patients. At the same time, their ability to discriminate between words and non-words was essentially intact. Consideration was given to mechanisms which might underlie such patients' correct and erroneous readings of words and non-words.

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