Naming is an important, but frequently overlooked, aspect of software systems. Usually, naming appears combined with other issues, e.g. distributed communication technology. This paper treats naming in isolation. It presents a naming design pattern which abstracts several naming policies and an object-oriented framework that can be customized to support naming policies. Applications designer ca...

Title of Document: EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE DEMAND ON WORD ENCODING IN ADULTS WHO STUTTER Pei-Tzu Tsai, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Nan Bernstein Ratner Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences The etiology of persistent stuttering is unknown, but stuttering has been attributed to multiple potential factors, including difficulty in processing language-related information, but...

Abstract Although perseveration-the inappropriate repetition of previous responses-is quite common among patients with neurological damage, relatively few detailed computational accounts of its various forms have been put forth. A particularly well-documented variety involves the pattern of errors made by "optic aphasic" patients, who have a selective deficit in naming visually presented object...

Studies of semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have yielded conflicting results, some finding evidence of considerable deficits, others finding that semantic knowledge is relatively intact. How do we reconcile findings from picture naming tasks that seem to indicate semantic impairment in AD with results from certain sorting tasks that suggest intact semantics? To investigate the ba...

On category-cued verbal fluency tasks, such as animal naming, respondents often report exemplars in semantically related clusters. We (Sung et al., 2012) used this tendency to elucidate sources of semantic dysfunction in adults with schizophrenia (SZ). Many patients with bipolar disorder (BD) show cognitive deficits that are similar to but milder than those seen in SZ. Whether this similarity e...

UNLABELLED In contrast with widely documented deficits of semantic knowledge relating to object concepts and the corresponding nouns in semantic dementia (SD), little is known about action semantics and verb production in SD. The degradation of action semantic knowledge was studied in 5 patients with SD compared with 17 matched control participants in an action naming task based on video clips....

A 35 year old right handed female sustained head injury in a road traffic accident. She had transient loss of consciousness followed by gradual recovery. Glasgow coma score on admission was 12/15, and there was no other neurological deficit. Non -contrast CT brain showed a small extradural hematoma over the right temporoparietal region and a small area of hemorrhagic contusion over the left fro...

In a recent TICS article, Ahissar [1] proposed an interesting new theory for understanding dyslexia, the ‘perceptual anchor theory’. The idea is straightforward. Most psychophysical tasks used to investigate perceptual deficits in dyslexia repeat stimuli, such as tones in frequency discrimination or objects in rapid automatized naming (RAN). Theoretically, this massed repetition allows unimpair...

PURPOSE Expressive syntax is a particular area of difficulty for individuals with Down syndrome (DS). In order to better understand the basis for sentence formulation deficits often observed in children and adults with DS, the authors explored the use and comprehension of verbs differing in argument structure. METHOD The authors examined verb and argument structure retrieval in 18 individuals...