Neurologische Klinik, Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland;Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada;Department of Neurology, Boston University and Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center, U.S.A.
Abstract:
In an unselected group of aphasics those patients who produced semantic paralexias had significantly larger lesions than those without semantic paralexias. The possible mechanisms of the release of “alternative” right hemisphere reading from left hemisphere control are discussed.