In setting out to explore the neural substrates of spelling and writing, a useful theoretical
point of departure is to consider the development of written language from an evolutionary …

Empirical evidence indicates that while the acquisition of oral language is based on
neuroanatomical and functional units that are genetically predetermined, it is difficult to …

Neuropsychology of Language, Reading, and Spelling explores the many neural systems
and subsystems that contribute to the production and comprehension of oral and written …

Although it is commonly assumed that posterior temporo-parietal regions are the regions of
the brain essential for accessing orthographic representations for written output, patients …

We report the results of an fMRI investigation of the neural bases of written language
comprehension (reading) and production (spelling). Both tasks were examined in the same …

In this paper, we report the case of a patient, PS, who shows excellent comprehension of the
meaning of words despite making a large number of phonemic paraphasias on tests of oral …

Carl Wernicke's (1874/1968) prescient and seminal theory of language disorders can be
paraphrased as follows: Language disorders are (1) due to impairments of elementary …

This chapter suggests that the various patterns of spelling abilities and impairments that
have been observed provide reasonably convincing evidence for several different separable …

A variety of different patterns of spelling impairment may be observed subsequent to
neurological damage. For example,“sauce” might be spelled as SOSS or as SOUCF or as …

Studies of developmental dyslexia in children suggest that poor spelling is an inevitable
concomitant of poor reading (Cook, 1981; Gerber, 1984; Nelson and Warrington, 1976). This …