LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Comparison of Confrontation Naming and Generative Naming Abilities in
Neurologically Healthy individuals and Persons with Aphasia

Abhishek. B. P.
Prema K.S. Rao, Ph.D.

Alterations in Communications

Advanced research methods in cognitive neuropsychology have emerged from different theoretical approaches and cognitive principles. These methods facilitate better understanding in the alterations in communication resulting from neurological disorders in adults. Cognitive Neuropsychology aims to understand the processing mechanisms of normal and injured brain by means of functional architectural models of information processing. It assumes that linguistic abilities are or¬ganized into multiple processes within subsystems that interact with each other, while maintaining some degree of independency.

Naming Process

Naming is one of the most important subsystems of the language module. It is also a simple method, employed in understanding the lexical semantic processing. The task requires retrieval of semantic and phono¬logical information, which is organized in a memory system and assessed depending on the specificities of a given stimulus. Based on the principles of Cognitive Neuropsychology, the visual confrontation naming process (in which the participant has to name a representational picture or object, based on visual input) comprises of three basic stages:

1. Identification of the represented object, which activates the mental struc¬tural representation
2. Access to its semantic represen¬tation, which allows the object to be recognized
3. Lexicalization or activation of its phonological representa¬tion, by which the name of the picture or object is retrieved and uttered. ¬

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Abhishek. B. P.
Junior Research Fellow
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
India
abhiraajaradhya@gmail.com

Prema K. S. Rao, Ph.D.
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
India
premarao@aiishmysore.com
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