Kinsbourne M, Rufo D T, Gamzu E, Palmer R L, Berliner A K
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, MA.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 1991 Sep;33(9):763-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1991.tb14960.x.
Adults with severe dyslexia were compared with age-, sex-, IQ- and SES-matched controls on a neuropsychological and neuromotor test battery, and a contrast group who had recovered from dyslexia was also included. The severely dyslexic group was substantially impaired on tests of verbal fluency and learning, as well as on non-verbal temporal order judgements. These test scores were strong predictors of the degree of reading impairment, as was the rate of repetitive movement of the right hand and foot. The results suggest that adult dyslexia is not 'isolated', but is one expression of a widespread left-hemisphere dysfunction.
研究人员将患有严重诵读困难症的成年人与年龄、性别、智商和社会经济地位相匹配的对照组进行了神经心理学和神经运动测试，还纳入了一组已从诵读困难症中康复的对比组。严重诵读困难症组在言语流畅性和学习测试以及非言语时间顺序判断方面存在显著障碍。这些测试分数以及右手和右脚的重复运动速度是阅读障碍程度的有力预测指标。研究结果表明，成人诵读困难症并非“孤立存在”，而是广泛的左半球功能障碍的一种表现。
