alexia

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Using a video-based eye-movement tracking system, we investigated the text reading behaviour of patients with established hemianopic alexia (> 6 months post deficit), a condition affecting left-to-right readers, with a homonymous field defect that encroaches into their right foveal / parafoveal visual field.

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  1. noun Loss of the ability to read, usually caused by brain lesions. Also called word blindness.

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  • Karaoke / ITA / alexia / alexia - uh la la la. mid —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • Then reflect that Engel himself struggled with the affliction, alexia sine agraphia, while writing the book. —  Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for International Crime Fiction
  • Patients with hemianopic alexia adopt an inefficient eye movement strategy when reading text. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Using a video-based eye-movement tracking system, we investigated the text reading behaviour of patients with established hemianopic alexia (> 6 months post deficit), a condition affecting left-to-right readers, with a homonymous field defect that encroaches into their right foveal / parafoveal visual field. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Word-based analyses of text reading are standard in experiments involving normal readers, but this is the first time these methods have been extended to patients with hemianopic alexia. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. a-1 + Greek lexis, speech (from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots) + -ia1.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀ- privative + λέξις, a speaking (or reading), from λέγειν, speak, read.
 

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