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Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Alexia(inability to comprehend written language while retaining relatively normal vision) without concomitant writing impairment results when a lesion destroys the left visual cortex and, in addition, involves the outflow of the splenium of the corpus callosum.... In its pure form the abnormality is rare and follows lesions of the left angular gyrus.  1, fiche 1, Anglais, - alexia

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Défaut de compréhension de l'écriture dû à une lésion corticale.  1, fiche 1, Français, - alexie

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Alteración extrema y específica de la lectura en la que el córtex occipital derecho está desconectado del mecanismo del lenguaje, radicado en el hemisferio izquierdo.  1, fiche 1, Espagnol, - alexia

Fiche 2,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The alexic individual has suddenly lost the ability to read and write due to brain damage of the angular gyrus and immediate environs. He can see words but cannot grasp their meaning. There is no loss in ability to recognize the meaning and implications of objects, pictures, diagrams, etc. Alexia is a "selective loss of capacity to recognize at a glance constellations of printed or written letters. "The patient can copy printed and scripted writing but cannot produce original compositions. Writing conforms to the patient's handwriting characteristics before the brain injury(Orton 1937, 37-39).  1, fiche 2, Anglais, - alexic

Fiche 2,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Relatif à l'alexie; perte sélective des capacités de lecture due à une lésion cérébrale.  2, fiche 2, Français, - alexique

Fiche 2,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Alexia affecting the ability to read words. "Interior language" is retained, reading being the only language modality to be lost.  1, fiche 3, Anglais, - pure%20word%20blindness

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The patient can write spontaneously and do dictation but cannot read what he has written. He may also have difficulty in identifying shapes, or orienting lines, and cannot understand the structure and form of letters. Copying is carried out with great difficulty and is always incomplete, with mistakes with regard to letters and to lines, whereas spontaneous writing is unimpaired.  1, fiche 3, Anglais, - pure%20word%20blindness

Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[Alexie qui] se caractérise par l'incompréhension du langage écrit, même si le patient veut relire un de ses propres textes. Par contre, les autres champs du langage sont préservés.  1, fiche 3, Français, - c%C3%A9cit%C3%A9%20verbale%20pure

Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Espagnol