汉语失读症机制研究进展

Pathogenesis of Chinese Alexia(review)

西方国家对于失读症机制的研究主要是建立在拼音文字的基础上。汉字是象形表意性文字,具有不同于拼音文字的形音义特征。近年来,随着认知神经心理学的发展,学者根据汉字的自身特点,对汉语失读症患者进行检查,揭示了汉字失读不同于拼音文字的特殊表现,进而对汉语失读症的发生机制进行了探讨。本文将对近年来汉语失读症的研究进展进行综述,并指出汉字形音义的独特性决定了汉语失读症的不同表现和机制。

The studies of the pathogenesis of alexia in the west were based on the alphabetic writing system. Chinese is a meaningful writing system, which has its own characteristic of orthographic, semantic and phonological. In recent years, with the development of cognitive neuropsychology, the researchers have investigated the Chinese alexic patients, revealed the special clinical feature of Chinese alexia, and discussed the pathogenesis of it. This article would review the advance of Chinese alexia.