A number of recent studies utilizing both functional neuroimaging and lesion analysis
techniques in neurologic patients have produced conflicting results with respect to the …

We hypothesized that distinct cognitive processes underlying oral and written picture
naming depend on intact function of different, but overlapping, regions of the left hemisphere …

The ability to name objects or abstract entities is an essential feature of speech and
language, being commonly considered a central component of normal neurologic function …

The pronunciation of irregular words in deep orthographies like English cannot be specified
by simple rules. On the other hand, the fact that novel letter strings can be pronounced …

Confrontation naming is impaired in neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease
(AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD). Some …

Lexical and semantic retrieval was investigated in normal volunteers with PET by comparing
picture confrontation naming and verb generation related to the same pictures. Conjunction …

Naming is typically assessed with visual naming tasks, yet, some patients with genuine word-
finding difficulty (evident in auditorily based discourse) show minimal difficulty on such …

Although imaging studies have indicated that the fusiform gyrus is important in tasks of
picture naming, whether this region encodes an object's structure or its meaning is not clear …

In recent neuroimaging studies, various tasks have been used to examine prefrontal cortex
involvement in semantic retrieval and selection. One such task, picture naming, has yielded …

The processes required for object naming were addressed in a study of patients with
semantic dementia (a selective decline of semantic memory resulting from progressive …