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Recent studies of pure alexia present a contradictory picture. Despite evidence of impaired letter identification in letter-by-letter readers, some patients are able to carry out lexical decision and other tasks under conditions of rapid presentation, although they are seldom able to identify these stim uli explicitly. We review evidence for both facets of pure alexic performance and offer an accountof this pattern in terms ofright-and left-hemisphere reading mechanisms. Specifically, we suggest that the right hemisphere supports performance in covert reading tasks, and that letter-by-letter reading is the product of the left hemisphere, operating on information transmitted from the right.
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