0749-596X/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.01.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Radboud Unive ders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Spinoza Building B.01.05, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 Netherlands. E-mail address: [email protected] (V. Piai). Disagreement exists about whether lexical selection in word production is a competitive process. Competition pre...

The case of a 74-year-old woman with Alzheimer's dementia is presented. Her ability to identify objects and faces was investigated, and it was shown that an item's name could sometimes be recalled in the absence of any appropriate semantic information. Performance on multiple-choice tests of semantic knowledge for items that were named was not above chance levels, even though the semantic test ...

There is growing evidence that individuation experience is necessary for development of expert object discrimination that transfers to new exemplars. Individuation training in human studies has primarily used label association tasks where labels are learned at both the individual and more abstract (basic) level, and expertise criterion requires that individual-level judgments become as fast as ...

In this paper, we would like to present a smooth way of enhancing the functionality of the CORBA Naming Service. The key element of our design is to leave the IDL interface of the Naming Service unchanged. The enhancements introduced in this paper are based on the exploitation of several underspecified parts of the CORBA standard, in a way that conformity with the standard and the corresponding...

INTRODUCTION. Italian children with dyslexia experience difficulties in reading long stimuli and show an extremely slow and analytical reading behaviour. Recently, we showed that word naming times of children with dyslexia were shorter for stimuli composed of a root and a derivational suffix (e.g., CASSIERE, ‘cashier’), as compared to simple words of the same length and frequency not parsable i...

Objectives: Semantic Feature Analysis was designed to improve lexical retrieval of aphasic patients via activation of semantic networks of the words. In this approach, the anomic patients are cured with semantic information to assist oral naming. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Semantic Feature Analysis treatment on anomia of two nonfluent aphasic patients. Methods: A...

Aphasic patients occasionally manifest a dissociated naming ability between objects and actions: this phenomenon has been interpreted as evidence of a separate organization for nouns and verbs in the mental lexicon. Nevertheless Bird et al. [Bird, H., Howard, D., Franklin, S. (2000). Why is a verb like an inanimate object? Grammatical category and semantic category deficits. BrainandLanguage, 7...

objectives: semantic feature analysis was designed to improve lexical retrieval of aphasic patients via activation of semantic networks of the words. in this approach, the anomic patients are cured with semantic information to assist oral naming. the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of semantic feature analysis treatment on anomia of two nonfluent aphasic patients. methods: a si...

Semantic errors are commonly found in semantic dementia (SD) and some forms of stroke aphasia and provide insights into semantic processing and speech production. Low error rates are found in standard picture naming tasks in normal controls. In order to increase error rates and thus provide an experimental model of aphasic performance, this study utilised a novel methodtempo picture naming. Exp...