Longitudinal performance on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) was evaluated in 53 normal
subjects aged 30 to 79 who were each tested three times over a 7-year span. Naming …

The cognitive neuroscience of human vision draws on two kinds of evidence: functional
imaging of normal subjects and the study of neurological patients with visual disorders …

A meta-analysis of 26 studies indicated that automatic semantic priming can occur without
association. Priming did not vary substantially with differences in variables that affect …

This paper examines three methodological issues concerning the measurement of semantic
memory impairment in brain-damaged patients. Ten carefully selected patients with …

Normal subjects are better at identifying and remembering concrete as compared to abstract
words (the concreteness effect). We present data on a patient, DM, who shows the opposite …

Reading aloud involves computing the sound of a word from its visual form. This may be
accomplished 1) by direct associations between spellings and phonology and 2) by …

Abstract Words similar in meaning but not associated may not automatically prime one
another (JR Shelton & RC Martin, 1992). This contradicts a central prediction of distributed …

Naming is a fundamental aspect of language. Word-finding deficit, anomia, is the most
common symptom of language dysfunction occurring after brain damage. Besides its …

We report here the case study of a patient (EC) with an Asperger syndrome, or autism with
quasinormal intelligence, who shows an outstanding ability for three-dimensional drawing of …

Three experiments investigated the extent to which semantic and working-memory deficits
contribute to Alzheimer patients' impairments in producing and comprehending referring …