摘要:In the last two decades the neuroanatomical correlates of the reading processes and of the dual route model ofreading have been repeatedly investigated by many functional neuroimaging (fMRI) studies. However, results are notconsistent and not converging with those reported in studies on brain-damaged patients. Extensive perisylvian lefthemisphere lesions have been reported as the anatomical correlate of both phonological and deep dyslexia, temporallesions/atrophy of surface dyslexia and infero-temporal and occipital lesions of letter-by-letter dyslexia. The presentinvestigation aims to study the anatomical correlates of acquired reading disorders in a sample of 45 aphasic focalbrain-damaged patients.