Marshall (1977) constructed a plausible simulation of "anomic" speech out of the 100 most common words in the English language. He suggested that impaired access to lower frequency vocabulary might underlie anomic word finding difficulties. But he also noted that another factor, age of acquisition, may exert an influence, with anomic patients experiencing particular difficulty with later acquir...

The ability to read aloud kanji (logogram) words and to comprehend their meaning was systematically examined to clarify the underlying mechanism of kanji alexia in a patient with anomic aphasia. Confrontation naming, reading aloud and reading comprehension tasks were performed using 110 words from 11 semantic categories written in kanji or kana. Performance in oral reading of kanji words was si...

This research action focuses on the multifunctional adaptation of a small social group composed men and women from different backgrounds living in extreme conditions. An anomic environment is situation encountered during 40 days underground cavities. That definition DEEP TIME mission. In this environmental experimental framework, ethological approach was implemented. It offers complementarity e...

Impaired word production after brain damage can be due to impairment at lexical-semantic or at lexical-phonological levels of word encoding. These processes are thought to involve different brain regions and to have different time courses. The present study investigated the time course of electrophysiological correlates of anomia in 16 aphasic speakers, divided in two subgroups according to the...

495 ABSTRACT Background and purposes: Anomic aphasia is common in patients with left hemispheric strokes. The purpose of this study was to explore the verbal production of ischemic stroke patients with anomic aphasia. Contingent and methods: Fifty ischemic stroke patients admitted to the Neurology Clinic of University Hospital Pleven were studied by neuropsychological battery and CT scan of the...

Bastiaanse, Koekkoek And Van Zonneveld (2003) hypothesized that individuals with Broca’s aphasia have problems with sentences in which the verb and its arguments are not in their base position. The present study is meant to test this hypothesis with the help of verbs with alternating transitivity: transitive: the boy breaks the glass; intransitive or unaccusative: the glass breaks. Superficiall...

The report of this single case study describes the preservation of a simple semantic category in a severely anomic patient. The implications for the organisation of semantic knowledge are discussed.