Selective disorders of reading?

Over the past few decades, refined cognitive architectures with highly spec ific components have been proposed to explain apparently selective disorder s of reading, resulting from brain disease or injury, in previously literat e adults. Recent analysis of the more general linguistic and cognitive abil ities supported by neural systems damaged in the various forms of alexia fa vours a rather different view of reading and the kinds of models sufficient to account for its acquisition, skilled performance and disruption.