Double Dissociation of Hangul and Hanja Reading in Korean Patients with Stroke
2005; Karger Publishers; Volume: 54; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1159/000090709
ISSN1421-9913
AutoresMiseon Kwon, Jong S. Kim, Jae‐Hong Lee, Hyeonsub Sim, Kichun Nam, Heasuk Park,
Tópico(s)Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
ResumoThe orthographic system of the Korean language consists of both phonogram (Hangul) and ideogram (Hanja). We report 2 patients who revealed selective impairment in reading either of orthographies after the brain damages. YJ, a 67-year-old man, showed Broca’s aphasia and severe apraxia of speech after a stroke in the left inferior parietal lobe. He demonstrated predominant difficulties in reading phonogram. KS, a 51-year-old woman, had an intracerebral hemorrhage in the left parietal lobe. She showed anomic aphasia and a selective impairment on reading ideogram. These findings support the notion that recognition of visual words is processed in different ways depending on the characteristics of orthographic systems.
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