Comprehension of Place and Person's Name of Five Severe Aphasics

Yasuda, Kosaku; Ono, Yoshiharu

doi:10.2496/apr.9.112

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“…The result was that famous people's names were more easily comprehended than were common nouns. Yasuda and Ono (1989) added three severely aphasic patients and obtained the same result. The superior comprehension of people's names over common nouns has been repeatedly reported in globally or severely aphasic patents (Warrington and McCarthy 1987, Van Lancker and Klein 1990, Van Lancker et al 1991, Van Lancker and Nicklay 1992, McNeil et al 1994, Yasuda and Ono 1998a.…”

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“…Their overlapped CT images seem to support this assumption (Yasuda and Ono 1998a). Yasuda and Ono (1989) and Van Lancker & Klein (1990) suggested that the intact RH was responsible for the superior comprehension of people's names by globally aphasic patients. Although the RH is clearly related to biographical knowledge of people (see next section), the preserved referential processing network in the LH might play a decisive role in comprehending people's names.…”

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“…This point of view is known as the theory of direct reference (see Valentine et al 1996, for review). Most neuropsychologists support this theory (Yasuda 1986, Warrington and McCarthy 1987, Semenza and Zettin 1988, Yasuda and Ono 1989, Lucchelli and De Renzi 1992, Hittmair-Delazer et al 1994, McNeil et al 1994). …”

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“…In spite of extensive damage to the LH, preservation of people's name comprehension in globally aphasic patients might be attributable to the ability of their intact RH (Yasuda 1986, Yasuda and Ono 1989, Van Lancker and Klein 1990, Van Lancker et al 1991. To date, the extent to which the RH can unilaterally process people's names remains unknown and thus the above hypothesis cannot be confirmed.…”

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“…which patients use in daily life (Van Lancker & Nicklay 1992). However, Yasuda and Ono (1989) reported a globally aphasic patient who showed difficulty in matching spoken familiar names with the corresponding written names (his wife and daughters) in spite of preserved ability to match spoken and written forms of famous people's names.…”

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Brain processing of proper names

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Beckmann²,

Nakamura³

2000

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Proper names are of practical importance for verbal communication. For instance, they are indispensable for transmission of autobiographical information concerning a person. Recent studies have revealed that proper names are neuropsychologically and anatomically processed in a manner that differs from the processing of common nouns. The current review described proper names, which are labels attached to referents, as being without semantic meaning. The clinical data are presented regarding comprehension and retrieval of people's names, and memory of their unique properties. The validity of a cognitive neuropsychological model of people's name processing is also evaluated.The review suggests that after the initial memory consolidation of a name and a person by the left hemisphere's hippo/parahippocampus, the memory become established in the adjoining fusiform gyrus. Consequently, it is hypothesized that the fusiform gyrus forms a processing network for people's names with the temporal pole and postero temporo/occipital lobe. The research on geographical names, topographical names, and therapeutic approaches for deficits of proper names is also reviewed.

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