Left anterior lobectomy and category-specific naming.

摘要: Damasio and colleagues (1996) have proposed that the left anterior temporal region supports knowledge pertaining to living objects, whereas more posterior regions play a critical role in naming nonliving things. Accordingly, one might expect left-sided lobectomy should profound effect on of as opposed As part multicenter collaborative project, seventy-nine patients (all left-hemisphere speech dominant) were tested pre- post-left-temporal task required items equated for name frequency, familiarity, visual complexity. Consistent with proposals et al. (1996), impaired ability, particularly When individual outcomes considered, twice many showed relative decline