Abstract
We reported a patient who showed paralexia during a reading task involving a list of kanji words. She produced the target form of the kanji which came previous in the list. The patient was an 82-year-old, right-handed woman who was admitted to a hospital following a cerebral infarction. The location of the infarction was in the left frontal lobe and the insula. She showed the symptoms of mixed transcortical aphasia. She presented with verbal paraphasia and neologistic errors when asked a kanji word, but she produced the correct response, delayed, when she read the next kanji in the list. This phenomenon occurred four times while reading the kanji list. These paralexic errors had no phonemic or semantic similarities to the target form of the next kanji. These responses could be interpreted as a different type of semantic perseveration.
