1998 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 154-161
A 69-year-old, right-handed male patient with left-parietal lobe lesions demonstrated impairments of kinesthetic reading-aloud and kinesthetic written reproduction with intact capacities of visual reading-aloud and visual written reproduction. It is speculated that disconnection phenomenon occurred in which images of characters cannot be retrieved from their kinesthetic stimuli, although kinesthetic, visual and auditory images of characters as well as motor and sensory systems seem to be intact. It is suggested that lesions centered in the left-parietal lobe produce deficits both in unimodal somesthetic association and cross-modal association for characters.