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  • Title: Variable solutions to the same problem: aberrant practice effects in object naming by three aphasic patients.
    Author: Wingfield A, Brownell H, Hoyte KJ.
    Journal: Brain Lang; 2006 Jun; 97(3):351-6. PubMed ID: 16386289.
    Abstract:
    Although deficits in confrontation naming are a common consequence of damage to the language areas of the left cerebral hemisphere, some patients with aphasia show relatively good naming ability. We measured effects of repeated practice on naming latencies for a set of pictured objects by three aphasic patients with near-normal naming ability and by neurologically intact young and older adults. While the non-injured participants showed a systematic reduction in overall mean latencies and reduced trial-to-trial latency variability, the aphasic patients did not. Examination of the latency distributions suggests that successful naming by aphasic patients may come about by different underlying operations.
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