Showing papers by "Tim Shallice published in 1977"

TL;DR: It is shown that a short-term memory component is present in many patients previously classified as conduction aphasics, and an explanation of the span deficit in terms of auditory-verbal short- term memory is preferred to hypotheses involving disconnections or damage to order retention systems.

TL;DR: The spontaneous speech of a patient with a specific repetition deficit was studied and it was concluded that the repetition difficulty arose from an auditory-verbal short-term memory impairment and not a high-level speech production deficit.

TL;DR: Literal dyslexia, the inability to read letters within a word which itself could be read, was analysed in two patients and was found not to be specific to letters but to stimuli in which more than one item of the same category was simultaneously present in the visual field.