title: On the nature of naming difficulties in aphasia.
abstract: An extensive naming battery was administered to ten patients representing classical aphasia syndromes. The battery included traditional performance measures and error scoring, phonological cuing, multiple-choice tasks tapping semantic and phonological knowledge, and word repetition tests. Differences in the patients' performance profiles were interpreted as reflecting lexical-phonological, phoneme assembly or multiple deficits. The results suggest that the hypothesized naming deficits have complex relationships to classical aphasia syndromes.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D012660:Semantics