Assessing neglect dyslexia with compound words
| Autor: | Michaela Adams, Alexander Schunck, Anna Katharina Schaadt, Georg Kerkhoff, Alexandra Simon, Stefan Reinhart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Standardized test Neuropsychological Tests Semantics 050105 experimental psychology Neglect Perceptual Disorders 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Reading (process) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Aged Cerebral Hemorrhage media_common Dyslexia Acquired business.industry 05 social sciences Dyslexia Cerebral Infarction Middle Aged medicine.disease Test (assessment) Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Compound Hemianopsia Female business Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Word (group theory) Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychology. 30:869-873 |
| ISSN: | 1931-1559 0894-4105 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/neu0000307 |
| Popis: | Objective The neglect syndrome is frequently associated with neglect dyslexia (ND), which is characterized by omissions or misread initial letters of single words. ND is usually assessed with standardized reading texts in clinical settings. However, particularly in the chronic phase of ND, patients often report reading deficits in everyday situations but show (nearly) normal performances in test situations that are commonly well-structured. To date, sensitive and standardized tests to assess the severity and characteristics of ND are lacking, although reading is of high relevance for daily life and vocational settings. Method Several studies found modulating effects of different word features on ND. We combined those features in a novel test to enhance test sensitivity in the assessment of ND. Low-frequency words of different length that contain residual pronounceable words when the initial letter strings are neglected were selected. We compared these words in a group of 12 ND-patients suffering from right-hemispheric first-ever stroke with word stimuli containing no existing residual words. Finally, we tested whether the serially presented words are more sensitive for the diagnosis of ND than text reading. Results The severity of ND was modulated strongly by the ND-test words and error frequencies in single word reading of ND words were on average more than 10 times higher than in a standardized text reading test (19.8% vs. 1.8%). Conclusion The novel ND-test maximizes the frequency of specific ND-errors and is therefore more sensitive for the assessment of ND than conventional text reading tasks. (PsycINFO Database Record |
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