Warrington E K
Br J Psychol. 1981 May;72(Pt 2):175-96. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1981.tb02175.x.
An experimental investigation of a single patient, CAV, with an acquired dyslexia in which there was a significant impairment in his ability to read concrete words compared with abstract words is reported. CAV's ability to identify single letters and non-words was very impaired. His comprehension of words he could not read was poor and semantic primary effects were demonstrated. His concrete word dyslexia was characterized by a lack of consistency and by a high incidence of visual errors. Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of this hitherto undescribed syndrome are in some respects similar to those described in patients with the complementary syndrome of relative impairment of abstract word reading. It is argued that this concrete word reading deficit provides a further example of category specificity in the organization of the semantic systems subserving reading.
本文报告了对一名患有后天性阅读障碍的患者CAV的实验研究。与抽象词相比，他阅读具体词的能力存在显著受损。CAV识别单个字母和非单词的能力也严重受损。他对无法阅读的单词的理解很差，并表现出语义初级效应。他的具体词阅读障碍的特点是缺乏一致性和视觉错误发生率高。这种迄今为止未被描述的综合征的定量和定性方面在某些方面与抽象词阅读相对受损的互补综合征患者所描述的情况相似。有人认为，这种具体词阅读缺陷为服务于阅读的语义系统组织中的类别特异性提供了另一个例子。
