Electric stimulation mapping (ESM) is frequently used during brain surgery to localise higher cognitive functions to avoid post-chirurgical disabilities. Experiments with brain imaging techniques and neuropsychological studies showed differences in the cortical representation and processing of nouns and verbs. The goal of the present study was to investigate whether electric stimulation in spec...

PURPOSE To verify the performance of a sample of Brazilian subjects in the "An Object and Action Naming Battery" (OANB), according to schooling; and to describe the main error types in nouns and verbs naming. METHODS The OANB was applied in 100 healthy subjects, divided in two groups (GI: four to eight years of schooling; and GII: above nine years). RESULTS There were correct answers for 97...

Existing methods for unsupervised identification of speakers in TV broadcast usually rely on the output of a speaker diarization module and try to name each cluster using names provided by another source of information: we call it “late naming”. Hence, written names extracted from title blocks tend to lead to high precision identification, although they cannot correct errors made during the clu...

Naming is an important, but frequently overlooked, aspect of software systems. Usually, naming appears combined with other issues, e.g. distributed communication technology. This paper treats naming in isolation. It presents a naming design pattern which abstracts several naming policies and an object-oriented framework that can be customized to support naming policies. Applications designer ca...

Stroke survivors with acquired language deficits are commonly thought to reach a 'plateau' within a year of stroke onset, after which their residual language skills will remain stable. Nevertheless, there have been reports of patients who appear to recover over years. Here, we analysed longitudinal change in 28 left-hemisphere stroke patients, each more than a year post-stroke when first assess...

Analogous to Malt, Sloman, Gennari, Shi and Wang (1999) we examined the relation between linguistic categorization and similarity of artifacts by Dutch-speaking and Frenchspeaking monolingual Belgians. We replicated the dissociation between naming and sorting found by Malt et al. (1999) for speakers of English, Chinese and Spanish. We also investigated the relation between the two naming patter...

Abstract Objective The Verbal Naming Test (VNT), a validated non-visual measure of word-finding ability in older adults, was designed to include words from distinct lexical (i.e., verbs vs. nouns) and semantic action object) categories better capture various naming deficits. This study examined specific contributions the convergent discriminant validity VNT, how well it detects Mild Cognitive I...