Paralexia

Summary

Paralexia is a reduction in reading ability characterized by the transposition or supplementation of words or syllables. It usually is an acquired condition associated with brain injury such as alexia or acquired dyslexia, for example, as the result of a stroke.[1][2][3][4]

There are several types of paralexias depending on the type of reading errors: orthographic paralexias, semantic paralexias, inflectional and derivational paralexias, function word substitutions, regularization errors and orthographic-then-semantic paralexias.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Alexia, Rhonda B. Friedman, Georgetown University Medical Center
  2. ^ Polelle, Donna (2011). "Paralexia". Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. p. 1855. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_906. ISBN 978-0-387-79947-6.
  3. ^ Alexia, Walt Kilcullen, Strokenet
  4. ^ Hoffmann, M (2012). "Thalamic semantic paralexia". Neurology International. 4 (1): e6. doi:10.4081/ni.2012.e6. PMC 3349961. PMID 22593810.
  5. ^ Alexia, Rhonda B. Friedman, Georgetown University Medical Center