Research Article

Stress Assignment Errors in Surface Dyslexia: Evidence from Two Italian Patients with a Selective Deficit of the Orthographic Input Lexicon

Table 1

Performances of patients BL and MA on Sartori’s battery [20]: correct responses.

TasksPatient BLPatient MA

Letter naming21/21 (100%)19/21 (91%)
Letter discrimination49/54 (91%)52/54 (96%)
Lexical decision64/80 (80%)68/80 (85%)
Semantic decision
 Easy38/40 (95%)40/40 (100%)
 Hard36/40 (90%)38/40 (95%)
Homophone processing
 Word comprehension19/32 (59%)18/32 (56%)
 Sentence discrimination17/32 (53%)16/32 (50%)

Chance level.