Auditory and visual naming tests: Normative and patient data for accuracy, response time, and tip-of-the-tongue

Abstract

Naming is typically assessed with visual naming tasks, yet, some patients with genuine word-finding difficulty (evident in auditorily based discourse) show minimal difficulty on such measures. Evidence from cortical mapping, brain imaging and neuropsychological studies suggests that auditory naming measures might provide more relevant or at least, complementary information. We developed comparable auditory and visual naming tests and present normative data for accuracy, response time, and tip-of-the-tongue responses based on 100 controls. Test validity was supported by findings that left temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients (i.e., a population with expected naming difficulty) performed more poorly on auditory but not visual naming compared to right TLE patients (i.e., a population without expected naming difficulty). Internal and test-retest reliability coefficients were reasonable. Finally, test utility was assessed on an individual basis, and auditory but not visual naming performance predicted impairment. (JINS, 2003, 9, 479-489.)

Functional MRI language mapping in pre-surgical epilepsy patients: Findings from a series of patients in the Epilepsy Unit at Mediclinic Constantiaberg

“…The extent of the neocortical (lateral) resection in patients undergoing dominant temporal lobe surgery determines the probability of new (in those without pre-existing dysnomia) or additional word-finding difficulties after surgery. Hence, identifying the neural correlate of naming is important in presurgical TLE patients, and we have added the auditory naming task [22] to our language-mapping paradigm to identify regions of activation that may be unique to descriptive naming.…”

Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Referential and Inferential Naming: Different Brain and Cognitive Operations to Lexical Selection

“…By contrast naming from definition has repeatedly been used to assess lexical and semantic competence in clinical settings (Sartori & Lombardi 2004) and in clinical research (e.g. in the investigation of temporal lobe epilepsy: Bell et al 2003;Hamberger and Seidel 2003;Trebuchon et al 2009). The cognitive operations involved in naming from definition have been much less described than those involved in picture naming and often the two tasks have been combined to identify brain areas associated with amodal word retrieval processes, i.e.…”

Verbal Naming Test for Use with Older Adults: Development and Initial Validation

“…Therefore, a verballybased, non-visual word-finding test may enable clinicians to more accurately detect difficulty in finding words while speaking. Hamberger and Seidel (2003) created an auditory naming test in their studies on temporal lobe epilepsy. Their measure was developed in an epilepsy clinic and used with a sample of adults with temporal lobe epilepsy.…”