Stroke Results In Inability To See Letters and Numbers And Creative "Mind Trick" To Enable Reading

JHU Cognitive Scientists Devise Alphabets That Allow Subjects To Read Again by Greg Rienzi.  Johns Hopkins University Gazette.  June 1, 2013.

Two fascinating case studies focused on reading and numerical processing in the brain as well as the creativity required to developed neurological work-arounds.

(1)  What was the surprising implication of the relationship between the damage to the basal ganglia and the reading impairment resulting from the stroke?

(2)  These case studies suggest that the brain ____________ numbers and letters from other images.
(3)  The researchers  used behavioral, electrophysiological, functional neuroimaging methods to address address questions concerning the cognitive and neural representations underlying ______________________.