Abstract
We examined the ability of an aphasic patient reading aloud and writing to dictation kana letters from the perspective of cognitive model of syllabary processing. Her disability in reading kana letters was relatively severe, but she could read them aloud by reciting the syllabary to reaching the target letter. However, she could not use the same method for writing to dictation kana letters. These results suggest that strings of sounds and letters of the syllabary may be separately preserved while the input and output modalities are separately disturbed.
