Shared space, separate processes: Neural activation patterns for auditory description and visual object naming in healthy adults.

ABSTRACT: Historically, both clinicians and cognitive scientists have used visual object naming measures to study naming, and lesion-type studies have implicated the left posterior, temporo-parietal region as a critical component of naming circuitry. However, recent results from behavioral and cortical stimulation studies using auditory description naming as well as visual object naming in left temporal lobe epilepsy patients suggest that discrete sites in anterior temporal cortex are critical for description naming, whereas posterior temporal regions mediate both visual object naming and description naming. To determine whether this task specificity reflects normal cerebral organization and processing, 13 healthy adults performed description naming and visual naming during functional neuroimaging.

SUBMITTER: Hamberger MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4091775 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature