This important book provides a broad, integrated overview of current research on word-
finding deficit, anomia, the most common symptom of language dysfunction occurring after …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to review treatment studies of semantic feature
analysis (SFA) for persons with aphasia. The review documents how SFA is used, appraises …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Despite the existence of speech errors, verbal communication is successful because
speakers can detect (and correct) their errors. The standard theory of speech-error detection …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

Nonaphasic speakers are known to take longer to name pictures when they are blocked by
semantic category and repeated multiple times. We replicated this “semantic blocking effect” …

Many facts about aphasic and nonaphasic naming are explained by models that use
spreading activation to map from the semantics of a word to its phonology. The implemented …

Some theories of lexical access in production locate the effect of lexical frequency at the
retrieval of a word's phonological characteristics, as opposed to the prior retrieval of a …

Background: A new phonologically based treatment that we developed for addressing
naming deficits in aphasia—the phonological components analysis (PCA) treatment—is …

Two experiments in which participants named pictured objects with difficult or easier names,
and a reanalysis and review of published data, reveal that problematic measures used in …