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Issue title: Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Across Scripts
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Menichelli, Alina | Machetta, Francesca | Zadini, Antonella | Semenza, Carlo
Affiliations: S.C. Medicina Riabilitativa, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Trieste, Italy | Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy | Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, and I.R.C.C.S. Ospedale S. Camillo, Lido di Venezia, Italy
Note: [] Corresponding author: Carlo Semenza, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Padova, Via Giustiniani 5, 35100, Padova, Italy. Tel.: +39 049 8214360; Fax: +39 049 8751770; E-mail: carlo.semenza@unipd.it
Abstract: The case is reported of a patient (PS) who, following acute encephalitis with residual occipito-temporal damage, showed a selective deficit in writing cursive letters in isolation, but no difficulty to write cursive-case words and non-words. Notably, he was able to recognize the same allographs he could not write and to produce both single letters and words in print. In addition to this selective single letter writing difficulty, the patient demonstrated an inability to correctly perform a series of imagery tasks for cursive letters. PS's performance may indicate that single letter production requires explicit imagery. Explicit imagery may not be required, instead, when letters have to be produced in the context of a word: letter production in this case may rely on implicit retrieval of well learned scripts in a procedural way.
Keywords: Allographic agraphia, word/letter dissociation, letter production, letter font, letter case
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2012-119008
Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 233-244, 2012
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