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

Cogn Behav Neurol. 2015 Sep;28(3):153-9. doi: 10.1097/WNN.0000000000000054.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Agraphia
  • Dyslexia
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Neuropsychology / methods*
  • Stroke / therapy*