Following a brief history of age of acquisition (AoA) research and consideration of measures
of AoA, this review examines AoA effects in lexical processing tasks (such as object naming …

How do we represent information without sensory features? How are abstract concepts like
“freedom”, devoid of external perceptible referents, represented in the brain? Here, to …

Background: Aphasia patients can produce some words reliably but have difficulty retrieving
other words. In this article we review one of the variables that have been proposed to …

Verb retrieval for action naming was assessed in 53 brain-damaged subjects by
administering a standardized test with 100 items. The goal of the study was to gain further …

Sixteen Spanish aphasic patients named drawings of objects on three occasions. Multiple
regression analyses were carried out on the naming accuracy scores. For the patient group …

Twenty-six elderly subjects (ages 71–86) and 10 young adult subjects (ages 22–33) named
206 black-and-white line drawings of objects. Although the two groups did not differ …

This volume combines in-depth reviews of models of spoken word production and cognitive
neuropsychological disorders of spoken word production. The first section provides a …

We present a re-analysis of a longitudinal study of the confrontation naming and verbal
comprehension performance of two progressive aphasic subjects, Mary and EP, who initially …

Background: Identifying the point of breakdown in people with aphasia with disorders of
word retrieval is not straightforward. Evidence has been sought from:(i) the nature of the …

Naming and word retrieval deficits are two of the most persistent symptoms in chronic post-
stroke aphasia. Naming success or failure on specific words can sometimes be predicted by …