Word retrieval
Visual naming
Also searched as Visual naming.
In depth
A subdomain of language: confrontation naming. The most universal language deficit — anomia occurs in essentially every form of aphasia, which makes it sensitive but not specific.
What drives it
Word finding increases it.
Spontaneous speech usually is fluent but interrupted by word-finding difficulties. Nonspecific words may be substituted for precise lexical items. PMC6797589
Word & fact memory increases it.
The core cognitive deficits in patients with SD typically manifest with reduced expressive and receptive vocabulary, anomia, impaired confrontation naming and single-word comprehension, object recognition/use. Verbatim from the source for this edge — PMC6493106. PMID 21038218 · PMC6493106
What it drives
It increases Language.
The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Language comprises object naming, word finding, fluency, grammar and syntax, and receptive language. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181
It increases Word & fact memory.
A reliably strong correlation between naming and knowing confers significant inference to naming ability. If indeed anomia observed in progressive aphasia is predominantly characterized by semantic…. PMC6797589
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