Anomia for people's names

Delazer, Margarete; Denes, Gianfranco; Semenza, Carlo; Mantovan, Maria Cristina

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(94)90091-4

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“…McCarthy & Warrington, 1988;Pietrini et al, 1988;Powell & Davidoff, 1995;Sartori & Job, 1988;Sheridan & Humphreys, 1993;Silveri & Gainotti, 1988;Sirigu et al, 1991;Warrington & Shallice, 1984), but in very few subjects with damage to proper names (Ellis, Young, & Critchley, 1989;Kapur, Heath, Meudell, & Kennedy, 1986;Kapur, Katifi, El-Zawawwi, Sedgwick, & Barker, 1994;Kay & Hanley, 1999;Verstichel, Cohen, & Crochet, 1996). Conversely, output lexical damage has been reported in many subjects with selective impairment for proper names (e.g., Carney & Temple, 1993;Cohen et al, 1994;Fery et al, 1995;Hittmair-Delazer et al, 1994;Lucchelli & De Renzi, 1992;McKenna & Warrington, 1980), but in very few cases with selective deficit for various categories of common names (Damasio et al, 1996). The striking discrepancy reported concerning the putative level of cognitive damage responsible for selective impairments of proper names and of common names (both animals and inanimate objects) is puzzling, and deserves further investigation.…”

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“…Subjects reported to suffer from selective anomia for proper names as a consequence of brain damage typically present with an essentially spared (sometimes fully normal) ability to produce common names, in the face of a disproportionate difficulty producing proper names. In some subjects, the deficit involves all proper names (e.g., Harris & Kay, 1995a, 1995bPapagno & Capitani, 1996;Semenza & Zettin, 1988, 1989, whereas in others it is restricted to the names of famous people (e.g., Carney & Temple, 1993;Cohen, Bolgert, Timsit, & Chermann, 1994;Fery, Vincent, & Brédart, 1995;Hittmair-Delazer, Denes, Semenza, & Mantovan, 1994;Lucchelli & De Renzi, 1992;McKenna & Warrington, 1980). In the light of these reports, proper names must be considered as a semantic category prone to selective impairment as a consequence of brain damage, just like animals and inanimate objects.…”

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Selective Deficit for People’s Names Following Left Temporal Damage: An Impairment of Domain-Specific Conceptual Knowledge

Miceli

Capasso

Daniele

et al. 2000

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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As a consequence of a head trauma, APA presented with selective anomia for the names of familiar people, in the absence of comparable disorders for common names and other proper names. Face recognition was normal; and naming performance was unaffected by stimulus and response types. Selective proper name anomia was not due to effects of frequency of usage or of age of acquisition, or to selective memory/learning deficits for the names of people. Even though APA was able to provide at least some information on many celebrities whom she failed to name, she was clearly impaired in all tasks that required full conceptual information on the same people (but she performed flawlessly in similar tasks that involved common names). This pattern of performance indicates that in our subject the inability to name familiar persons results from damage to conceptual information. It is argued that detailed analyses of conceptual knowledge are necessary before it is concluded that a subject with proper name anomia suffers from a purely output disorder, as opposed to a conceptual disorder. The behaviour observed in APA is consistent with the domain-specific hypothesis of conceptual organisation (Caramazza & Shelton, 1998), and in this framework can be explained by assuming selective damage to knowledge of conspecifics. The anatomo-clinical correlates of our subject's disorder are discussed with reference to recent hypotheses on the neural structures representing knowledge of familiar people.

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Selective Deficit for People’s Names Following Left Temporal Damage: An Impairment of Domain-Specific Conceptual Knowledge

Miceli

Capasso

Daniele

et al. 2000

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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“…5 Findings from neuropsychology and biology also support a distinction between proper names (PN) and common nouns (CN). For example, there are reports of various patients with specific brain damage (aphasics) who are selectively impaired in their ability to use either PNs 6,7 or CNs, respectively or in some cases even very specific categories of nouns such as tools or fruits relative to other categories which are relatively intact. 8 Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether there exists a biological basis for this distinction between PNs and CNs.…”

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“…18 Some aphasic individuals show very selective impairments in retrieving either certain groups of PNs, e.g. states or persons, 6,7,19 or in retrieving certain groups of CNs, e.g. tools or fruits.…”

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Whatʼs in a name? Electrophysiological differences between spoken nouns, proper names and oneʼs own name

Müller

Kutas

1996

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TO investigate the neural processing of different word categories, we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from 32 individuals listening to sentences, beginning either with a proper name (first name), the subject's own name, or a common noun. Names and nouns both elicited ERP waveforms with the same early componentry, but the N1 and P2 components were larger for proper names than common nouns. The ERPs to the subject's own name also had a large N1/P2 plus a prominent negativity at parieto-central site peaking around 400 ms and a late positivity between 500-800 ms over left lateral-frontal sites. These findings are consistent with differential processing of people's first names within the category of nouns.

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“…YOT does not show either a preserved ability to produce proper names in the context of an impairment to production of common names, or preserved comprehension of both proper names and common names. Hittmair-Delazer et al (1994) cite three patients who, they claim, show a selective sparing of proper names. We shall consider each patient in turn.…”

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