Publications by authors named "Macarena M Cuitino"
Processing of nouns and action verbs can be differentially compromised following lesions to posterior and anterior/motor brain regions, respectively. However, little is known about how these deficits in the course of neurodegeneration. To address this issue, we assessed productive lexical skills in a patient with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) at two different stages of his pathology.
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- The paper presents a case study of surface alexia in a Spanish-speaking patient (MM), highlighting the characteristics and performance of the condition in reading words and sentences.
- Patient MM demonstrates a reading pattern of slow and syllabic reading, indicating reliance on the non-lexical route while struggling with lexical tasks including errors with pseudohomophones.
- The study emphasizes the importance of suitable assessment tests and suggests specific tasks for identifying surface alexia within a writing system known for its regularity.