VITHEA is an on-line platform designed to act as a “virtual therapist” for the treatment of Portuguese speaking aphasic patients. Concretely, the system integrates automatic speech recognition technology to provide word naming exercises to individuals with lost or reduced word naming ability. In this paper, we present the solution adopted for the word naming task, which is based on a keyword sp...

This paper aims to test the predictive role of nonword reading abilities (accuracy and fluency) rapid naming (RAN) over word fluency. Letter knowledge (LK) phonological awareness (PA) for literacy were accounted as control factors due their ceiling effects. We direct impact main predictors indirect outcomes by controlling accuracy. To this end, 206 children participated completed measures abili...

BACKGROUND Phonological priming has been shown to facilitate naming in individuals with aphasia as well as healthy speakers, resulting in faster naming latencies. However, the mechanisms of phonological facilitation (PF) in aphasia remain unclear. AIMS Within discrete vs. interactive models of lexical access, this study examined whether PF occurs via the sub-lexical or lexical route during no...

Naming impairments in aphasia are typically targeted using semantic and/or phonologically based tasks. However, it is not known whether these treatments have different neural mechanisms. Eight participants with aphasia received twelve treatment sessions using an alternating treatment design, with fMRI scans pre- and post-treatment. Half the sessions employed Phonological Components Analysis (PC...

To examine visual and verbal coding strategies, I asked children with intellectual disabilities and peers matched for MA and CA to perform picture memory span tasks with phonologically similar, visually similar, long, or nonsimilar named items. The CA group showed effects consistent with advanced verbal memory coding (phonological similarity and word length effects). Neither the intellectual di...

In this study, we aimed to provide a large-scale set of psycholinguistic norms for 3,314 traditional Chinese characters, along with their naming reaction times (RTs), collected from 140 Chinese speakers. The lexical and semantic variables in the database include frequency, regularity, familiarity, consistency, number of strokes, homophone density, semantic ambiguity rating, phonetic combinabili...

Perceptual psychology widely operationalizes color appearance as a construct with very close, even isomorphic, ties to color naming structure. Indeed, a considerable body of psychological and psychophysics research uses naming–based tasks to derive structural properties of color appearance space. New research investigating the relations linking color similarity and color naming structures sugge...

The naming of objects usually takes longer than reading their names. Cattell (1886) was the first to measure this difference in latency between naming and reading, which he explained in terms of greater practice for reading than for naming. However, a study by Brown (1915) showed that even after 10 days of practice in naming, reading was, on average, 131 msec faster than naming. Ligon (1932) in...

Objective. Object naming for specific semantic categories was assessed in a sample of 24 patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy. Testing occurred during preoperative clinical diagnostics and 6 months after surgery. Background. Category-specific deficits constitute a naming disorder for living or nonliving objects or subsets of these categories (e.g. animals, fruits, tools) with relatively sp...