This fMRI study explores how nonlinguistic cues modulate lexical activation in the bilingual brain. We examined the influence of face race on bilingual language production in a picture-naming paradigm. Chinese-English bilinguals were presented with pictures of objects and images of faces (Asian or Caucasian). Participants named the picture in their first or second language (Chinese or English) ...

Naming and discovery are two critical issues of a widearea network computing system. The rising popularity of wide-area systems have resulted in the development of a variety of naming and discovery systems that are centered on a “descriptive” paradigm, where resources and services are described by a set of attribute-value tuples. This paper presents new evidence to suggest that descriptive nami...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on picture naming in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). DESIGN Experimental study. Patients with AD underwent rTMS in real and control conditions during picture-naming tasks. SETTING San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli Scientific Institute in Brescia, Italy...

We studied 20 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) on a picture-naming task consisting of frequency-matched pairs of nouns and verbs that were homophonic and homographic (e.g., paint). Intragroup comparisons revealed that verb naming is significantly more difficult for patients with AD than noun naming. An error analysis demonstrated that patients with AD produce significantly more semantic a...

Using direct cortical stimulation to map language function during awake craniotomy is a well-described and useful technique. However, the optimum neuropsychological tasks to use have not been detailed. We used both functional MRI (fMRI) and direct cortical stimulation to compare the sensitivity of two behavioral paradigms, number counting and object naming, in the demonstration of eloquent cort...

Application of the conventional X.500 approach to naming has heretofore, in the experience of the authors, proven to be an obstacle to the wide deployment of directory-enabled applications on the Internet. We propose a new directory naming plan that leverages the strengths of the most popular and successful Internet naming schemes for naming objects in a hierarchical directory. This plan can, w...

The effect of typicality of category exemplars on naming performance was investigated using a single subject experimental design across participants and behaviors in four patients with fluent aphasia. Participants received a semantic feature treatment to improve naming of either typical or atypical examples, while generalization was tested on the untrained examples of the category. The order of...

Objectives: The aim of this research is to design a neuro-cognitive program, based on dysfunctions and alterations of some neural circuits in dyslexics. The visual and auditory working memories in pre-schoolers were evaluated with this program in order to early screening for dyslexia. Methods: This study is a longitudinal descriptive research. A total of 259 randomly selected pre-schoolers, wi...

PURPOSE Current knowledge regarding the topography of essential language cortex is based primarily on stimulation mapping studies of nonlesional epilepsy patients. We sought to determine whether space-occupying temporal lobe lesions are associated with a similar topography of language sites, as this information would be useful in surgical planning. METHODS We retrospectively compared the topo...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that distinct patterns of gray matter atrophy are responsible for unique interruptions of the naming process in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). MATERIALS AND METHODS Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was performed to characterize at the voxel level the neuroanatomic changes that occur in AD a...