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Pure alexia, also known as agnosic alexia or alexia without agraphia or pure word blindness, is one form of alexia which makes up "the peripheral dyslexia"

whether an individual has pure alexia, tests of copying and recognition must be performed. An individual with pure alexia should be able to copy a set of

strategies and treatment approaches. Pure alexia, also known as agnosic alexia or pure word blindness, is one form of alexia which makes up "the peripheral

Alexia may refer to: Alexia (given name) Alexia (singer) (born 1967), Italian singer Alexia (album), a 2002 album by the Italian singer Alexia Putellas

of additional, more "pure" forms of language disorder that may affect only a single language skill. For example, in pure alexia, a person may be able

association tract connecting Broca’s area and Wernicke’s), agnosia, apraxia, pure alexia, etc. Theodore Meynert, a neuroanatomist of the late 1800s, developed

for the cognitive process which is impaired, however. For example, in pure alexia, the ability to read is destroyed by a lesion damaging both the left

or feature identification tasks of unknown faces. Pure alexia ("alexia without dysgraphia" or "pure word blindness") is a category-specific agnosia, characterized

Astereognosis Occipital lobe Bálint's syndrome Cortical blindness Anton syndrome Pure alexia Temporal lobe Cortical deafness Prosopagnosia Subcortex Basal ganglia

(inability to recognize faces), pure word blindness (inability to recognize words, often called "agnosic alexia" or "pure alexia"), agnosias for colors (inability