A minimal standardization setting for language mapping tests: an Italian example.

摘要: During awake surgery, picture-naming tests are administered to identify brain structures related language function (language mapping), and avoid iatrogenic damage. Before after naming other neuropsychological procedures aim at charting abilities, detecting which items the subject can respond correctly. To achieve this goal, sufficiently large samples of normed standardized stimuli must be available for preoperative postoperative testing, prepare intraoperative tasks, latter only including named flawlessly preoperatively. discuss design, norming presentation stimuli, describe minimal standardization setting used develop two sets Italian one object verb naming, respectively. The includes a study (to obtain picture-name agreement ratings), on-line questionnaires acquire age-of-acquisition imageability ratings all test items), relevant variables. have >80 % agreement, high levels internal consistency reliability age acquisition ratings. They psycholinguistic variables known affect lexical access retrieval, validated in clinical population. This framework increase probability reliably impairments before based on sufficient knowledge pre-surgical abilities each patient, decrease false positives during surgery. Examples data usage provided. Normative found supplementary materials.