Naming: Nouns and Verbs

Rofes, Adrià; Mahon, Bradford Z.

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“…In such a distributed multi‐component network, numerous types of brain injury or degeneration may differentially disrupt noun and verb retrieval, potentially leading to the multiplicity of linguistic profiles profusely characterized in the literature. Whereas both object and action naming crucially rely on shared left‐lateralized areas of the brain, verbs may depend on the recruitment and coordination of additional subcortical structures and right hemisphere areas (Alyahya et al., 2018; Rofes & Mahon, 2021; Rofes & Miceli, 2014). 2 Ever since the 1970s, behavioural studies have shown dissociations between nouns and verbs in different clinical groups (e.g., Kavé & Goral, 2017; Lukic et al., 2021; Mason & Nickels, 2021, passim , for a comprehensive summary of evidence from healthy ageing, aphasia and neurodegenerative diseases).…”

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Naming as a window to word retrieval changes in healthy and pathological ageing: Methodological considerations

Martínez-Ferreiro

2022

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: Word retrieval skills change across the lifespan. Permanent alterations in the form of decreased accuracy or increased response time can be a consequence of both normal ageing processes or the presence of acquired and neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., aphasia and dementia). Despite the extensive literature exploring the neuroanatomical underpinnings of word retrieval, psycholinguistic, biolinguistic and theoretical explanations, and the vast amount of evidence from primary and secondary language disorders, the best approach to consistently capture these changes is yet to be discovered. Aims: The goal of this paper is to determine which method(s) stand(s) as the most suitable candidate(s) to provide an accurate picture of word retrieval in the oral production of different groups of adult speakers, including cases of healthy ageing, preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), aphasia and dementia. Methods & Procedures: Using an integrative review of recent peer-reviewed journal articles, we provide an overview of the different behavioural methods traditionally used to measure oral naming skills in research-oriented and clinical protocols and discuss their main advantages and limitations. Main Contribution:Most existing studies are based on the results of people with diagnosed language disorders. Despite the growing interest, the reliability of the majority of the tasks to detect subtle changes associated with healthy ageing, MCI and preclinical AD are yet to be demonstrated, and the delicate balance between informativeness and efficiency (especially in terms of administration time and variable control) in experimental protocols is yet to be achieved. In this article we propose the pursuit of an integrative overarching methodology to characterize all naming deficits (from anecdotal to permanent) and all adult populations (from healthy to pathological ageing). Conclusions & Implications:A combination of spontaneous speech data and results from structured tasks stands as the best approach to capture changes in This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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