The facilitation of picture naming in aphasia
1985; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/02643298508252861
ISSN1464-0627
AutoresDavid Howard, Karalyn Patterson, Sue Franklin, Virginia Orchard-lisle, John Morton,
Tópico(s)Phonetics and Phonology Research
ResumoAbstract A series of four experiments are described investigating the effects of a number of treatments on the ability of aphasic patients to retrieve picture names, at some time after the treatment is applied. Auditory word-to-picture matching, visual word-to-picture matching and semantic judgements are found to have effects lasting for up to 24 hours. It is argued that durable facilitation of aphasic word retrieval is a consequence of treatment techniques that require the patients to access the semantic representation corresponding to the picture name, and this is contrasted with the short-term effects of techniques that provide patients with information about the phonological shape of the name. The theoretical and therapeutic implications of these results are discussed.
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