Berti A, Frassinetti F, Umiltà C
Instituto di Fisiologia Umana, Università di Parma.
Cortex. 1994 Jun;30(2):181-97. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(13)80192-x.
In this study we present evidence which supports the view that reading mechanisms, if implicit assessed, are available also in the presence of a severe deficit of spatial awareness. A Stroop-like task was performed by a right brain-damaged patient affected by severe extrapersonal neglect and neglect dyslexia. In reading words and color words, the patient showed the usual pattern of neglect errors; omission, substitution and addition errors. However, when asked to name the colors in which color words were written, naming time was found to be affected by the meaning of those words he was not able to read correctly. The pattern of results in MD and in a group of normal subjects, who performed a modified version of the Stroop test performed by MD, have been interpreted as evidence of MD's implicit reading of the left-hand letters of color words during the Stroop test. The theoretical implications of this finding are discussed. Moreover, the comparison between the performance of MD and the performance of another group of normal subjects suggested that implicit processing in MD was carried out at a lower level of efficiency than in normals.
在本研究中，我们提供的证据支持这样一种观点：如果对阅读机制进行隐性评估，那么在存在严重空间意识缺陷的情况下，阅读机制也是存在的。一名患有严重的个人空间忽视和忽视性阅读障碍的右脑损伤患者执行了一项类似斯特鲁普的任务。在阅读单词和颜色单词时，该患者表现出了常见的忽视错误模式；遗漏、替换和添加错误。然而，当要求他说出书写颜色单词的颜色时，发现命名时间受到了他无法正确阅读的那些单词含义的影响。MD以及一组正常受试者（他们执行了MD所做的斯特鲁普测试的修改版本）的结果模式，被解释为MD在斯特鲁普测试期间对颜色单词左侧字母进行隐性阅读的证据。本文讨论了这一发现的理论意义。此外，MD的表现与另一组正常受试者的表现之间的比较表明，MD的隐性加工效率低于正常人。
