… re-analyse this effect of operativity on naming. We have three … analyse the meaning of the
operativity concept and to specify … Gardner’s study is very often cited in the literature on naming …

… operativity and animacy affect naming accuracy in 18 aphasic patients. Both operativity and
animacy have significant effects on naming … showed a significant animacy effect (with better …

… of AoA and number of phonemes, Group 2 did not show the significant independent effect
of operativity on naming which had been found for Group 1. Furthermore, this second group …

… A further control technique, and the focus of the present study, is the use of reaction times
in a name–picture verification task, also known as name–picture matching. A variation of this …

… the impact of frequency and AoA on the picture-naming errors … We are particularly concerned
with the effects of frequency (… study that orthogonally manipulated frequency and operativity …

… In this paper, we studied the effect of AoA, as well as of other … , familiarity, name agreement
and word length), in the naming performances … The operativity effect in naming: A re-analysis. …

… on a standardized naming measure, it was hypothesized that naming performance would …
object names. We investigated the relation between performance on the Boston Naming Test (…

… Aims: To estimate naming latencies for the … naming latencies for predicting item difficulty.
Methods and Procedures: Using a speeded picture naming task we estimated mean naming …

… As Nickels and Howard noted, operativity is a … operativity can be the sole cause of the effect
of the number of functional attributes that we found. All of our items were high in operativity in …

… worse at naming items with longer names, henceforth the 'normal' length effect, or are not
influenced by length. I will now turn from the literature on dysphasia to models of naming. Many …