摘要：Pure agraphia was reportedly related to a functional lesion in the orthographic working memory(OWM), a component of cognitive neuropsychological models of lexical processing (Cantagallo &Bonazzi, 1996., Caramazza, Miceli, Villa & Romani, 1987., Posteraro, Zinelli, & Mazzcchi, 1988).Theoretically motivated studies of pure agraphia were mostly about Italian (or one French case)aphasics who had displayed symptoms of dysgraphia. Like French, but unlike Italian, English has anopaque orthography. Clinical data from users of diverse writing systems will enable researchers totest the universality of cognitive models of writing and reading. The objectives of the current studywere 1) to report a case of isolated agraphia whose native language was English, and 2) to discussthe agraphic errors in the context of previous cognitive neurological studies of dysgraphias.
