Neuropsychological Thoughts, Then and Now: A Tribute to Oscar Marin

This brief paper, inspired by an invitation to acknowledge and celebrate Oscar Marin’s great contributions to cognitive neurology and neuropsychology, reviews the case of a patient, T.P., who had significant deficits of naming, reading, and spelling. I first studied and reported this patient 35 years ago, in 1979, when I was significantly influenced by the work of Oscar Marin and his colleagues. I have recently had the unusual opportunity to do some brief reassessment of T.P.’s current (2015) cognitive abilities, and to reassess the interpretations that I had given to her pattern of impairment in the initial studies. I suggest that advances over the last decade or so—in theorizing about, and connectionist modeling of, reading and spelling disorders—enable a more coherent account of T.P.’s acquired anomia, dyslexia, and dysgraphia, and the relationships among them.

Source: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology - September 1, 2015 Category: Neurology Tags: Case Reports Source Type: research