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. 2012 Aug 24;23(11):2568–2580. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs224

Table 1.

Demographic and background neuropsychological assessment for the 9 UK patients ordered left to right, from mild to severe, according to the severity of the reading impairment (slope of the word length effect in RTs)

Maximum Normal cut-off EI FW KW JWF RK TS JW JM MS
Demographics
 Age — — 40 80 44 54 63 57 59 67 70
 Sex — — F M M F M M M M F
 Handedness RH RH RH LH RH RH RH RH LH
 Years of education — — 13 11 10 10 10 10 11 10 10
Lesion aetiology Stroke Stroke Stroke Stroke Stroke Tumor resection Stroke Tumor resection Stroke
Lesion volume (cc) 12.11 No scan No scan 92.89 39.93 162.69 93.27 14.34 99.34
Visual field loss RUQ RHH RHH RHH RHH RHH RHH RUQ RHH
Working memory
 Digit span
 Forward (12) — 5 9 8 8 6 NT 8 7 12 10
 Backward (12) — 2 5 4 7 5 NT 4 4 7 6
Visual processing
 VOSP
 Incomplete letters 20 16 20 17 20 17 20 19 19 20 16
 Silhouettes 30 15 21 21 19 24 20 22 25 18 19
 Object decision 20 14 19 17 20 19 15 18 17 17 16
 Progressive silhouettes 20 15 11 14 16 8 20 5 8 11 9
 Dot counting 10 8 10 7 9 10 10 10 10 10 9
 Position discrimination 20 18 20 19 20 16 20 18 20 20 19
 Number location 10 7 9 10 10 8 9 10 10 10 10
 Cube analysis 10 6 10 9 4 10 6 10 9 10 7
Semantic processing
 Naminga 64 62 62 62 58 56 56 41 59 61 45
 Camel and Cactus (pictures)a 64 52 61 59 44 61 52 24 52 61 47
 Word–picture matchinga 64 62 64 64 NT NT NT 63 64 63 62
 96 Synonyms 96 90 91 96 74 94 90 83 93 93 81
Phonological processing
 PALPA 2: Phonological judgment
 Total 72 64 68 71 71 72 72 68 71 72 71
 Same 36 34 32 35 35 36 36 36 36 36 36
 Different 36 30 36 36 36 36 36 32 35 36 35
 PALPA 15: Rhyme judgment 60 43 47 57 59 58 57 56 57 56 53
 Phoneme segmentationb
 Total 96 76 94 96 87 96 73 87 96 94 91
 Addition 48 39 46 48 40 48 36 48 48 46 45
 Subtraction 48 37 48 48 47 48 37 39 48 48 46

Note: Bold denotes abnormal performance. VOSP, Visual Object and Space Perception battery; PALPA, Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia (Kay et al. 1992); NT, not tested; RHH, right homonymous hemianopia; RUQ, right upper quadrantanopia; ND, no field defect.