title: Proper name anomia in poststroke aphasics: evidence from a multiple-case study.
abstract: We aimed to characterize difficulties in famous face naming in three poststroke aphasic patients with a lesion limited to the left mid-posterior temporal language regions, sparing the anterior temporal lobe. The patients did not present semantic deficits specific to known people. Nonetheless, they showed difficulties naming famous buildings in addition to famous faces, but they were comparable to healthy controls in generating proper names. Our results support the critical role of the mid-posterior temporal language regions in the lexical retrieval of proper names, namely from pictorial stimuli, in absence of semantic impairments.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Medicine , Université de Montréal , Montréal , Canada.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vitali
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rouleau
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Deschaintre
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mina
authors.forename: Marthyne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brazeau
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lanthier
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Montembeault
authors.forename: Simona Maria
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Brambati
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D001037:Aphasia / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009275:Names; D012660:Semantics; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: famous face naming; lexical retrieval of proper names; person-related semantics; poststroke aphasia; semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia