Dear Colleagues,
Perhaps you could help me find answers to several questions on the neural organization of alphabet and number recitation:
1. Could recitation of numbers and letters rely on phonological long-term memory without accessing lexical information? Alternatively, could lexical information be accessed only for numbers (since they are words) but not letters (that are not words)?
2. Several neuroimaging studies (including clinical reports) have shown a dissociation between letter and number sequencing (recitation, reading and writing). Why do you think this is the case?
3. A patient could not recite the alphabet but could sing it upon electrical brain stimulation. Any suggestions why this happened?
Help with any of the questions will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
Monika