Naming Famous Faces and Buildings

Milders, Maarten

doi:10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70842-6

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“…In many configurations, proper noun anomia is considered another type of category naming disorder, such as the selective inability to name tools, parts of speech, or animals (Goodglass & Wingfield, 1997). Familiar proper noun anomia has been reported in left parieto-occipital (Semenza & Zettin, 1988), left fronto-temporal (Semenza & Zettin, 1989), temporal damage (Reinkemeier, Markowitsch, Rauch, & Kessler, 1977); due to head trauma (Miceli, Daniele, Esposito, & Magarelli, 1998), and left thalamic damage (Lucchelli & De Renzi, 1992;Luccelli, Muggia, & Spinnler, 1997); traumatic brain injury (Milders, 2000;Milders, Deelman, & Berg, 1999), and multiple lesion damage (Carney & Temple, 1993); following surgery for an aneurysm of the internal carotid (Fery, Vincent, & Brédart, 1995) and the posterior cerebral artery (Hanley, 1995); and from a LH degenerative process (Fadda, Turriziani, Carlesimo, Nocentini, & Caltagirone, 1998), a large LH tumor (Hittmair-Delazer, Denes, Semenza, & Mantovani, 1994), and a left temporal lobe tumor (Shallice & Kartsounis, 1993).…”

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Cerebral Laterality for Famous Proper Nouns: Visual Recognition by Normal Subjects

Ohnesorge

Lancker

2001

Brain and Language

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Cerebral Laterality for Famous Proper Nouns: Visual Recognition by Normal Subjects

Ohnesorge

Lancker

2001

Brain and Language

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“…It also has the potential to improve differential diagnosis. To our knowledge, famous places have only been investigated in some patient populations such as Mild cognitive impairment patients (Ahmed, Arnold, Thompson, Graham, & Hodges, 2008), post-stroke aphasics (Vitali, et al, 2015), traumatic brain injury patients (Milders, 2000), and epileptic patients (Benke, Kuen, Schwarz, & Walser, 2013). Famous logos have never been used with patient populations.…”

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Naming unique entities in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer's disease: Towards a better understanding of the semantic impairment

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While the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) is characterized by a predominant semantic memory impairment, episodic memory impairments are the clinical hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, AD patients also present with semantic deficits, which are more severe for semantically unique entities (e.g. a famous person) than for common concepts (e.g. a beaver). Previous studies in these patient populations have largely focused on famous-person naming. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate if these impairments also extend to other semantically unique entities such as famous places and famous logos. In this study, 13 AD patients, 9 svPPA patients, and 12 cognitively unimpaired elderly subjects (CTRL) were tested with a picture-naming test of non-unique entities (Boston Naming Test) and three experimental tests of semantically unique entities assessing naming of famous persons, places, and logos. Both clinical groups were overall more impaired at naming semantically unique entities than non-unique entities. Naming impairments in AD and svPPA extended to the other types of semantically unique entities, since a CTRL>AD>svPPA pattern was found on the performance of all naming tests. Naming famous places and famous persons appeared to be most impaired in svPPA, and both specific and general semantic knowledge for these entities were affected in these patients. Although AD patients were most significantly impaired on famous-person naming, only their specific semantic knowledge was impaired, while general knowledge was preserved. Post-hoc neuroimaging analyses also showed that famous-person naming impairments in AD correlated with atrophy in the temporo-parietal junction, a region functionally associated with lexical access. In line with previous studies, svPPA patients' impairment in both naming and semantic knowledge suggest a more profound semantic impairment, while naming impairments in AD may arise to a greater extent from impaired lexical access, even though semantic impairment for specific knowledge is also present. These results highlight the critical importance of developing and using a variety of semantically-unique-entity naming tests in neuropsychological assessments of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, which may unveil different patterns of lexical-semantic deficits.

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“…In addition, patients with brain lesions may show selective impairment of face recognition versus the recognition of objects, and the opposite pattern has also been described. The double dissociation implies that different brain regions are recruited for the recognition of faces and other types of visual objects [22][23][24][25][26] .…”

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Functional MRI mapping of category-specific sites associated with naming of famous faces, animals and man-made objects

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Naming Famous Faces and Buildings

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Cerebral Laterality for Famous Proper Nouns: Visual Recognition by Normal Subjects

Cerebral Laterality for Famous Proper Nouns: Visual Recognition by Normal Subjects

Naming unique entities in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer's disease: Towards a better understanding of the semantic impairment

Functional MRI mapping of category-specific sites associated with naming of famous faces, animals and man-made objects

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