A. Basso et al., EVOLUTION OF ORAL AND WRITTEN CONFRONTATION NAMING ERRORS IN APHASIA - A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY ON VASCULAR PATIENTS, Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section A, Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 18(1), 1996, pp. 77-87
Impaired naming is a common finding in aphasia but while it is known t
hat naming errors diminish over time, longitudinal studies are rare. I
n this retrospective study, naming errors of 84 vascular aphasic patie
nts are studied. Errors in oral and written confrontation naming tasks
in two successive evaluations are tabulated and coded into one of 19
error types: No Response, Word-Finding Difficulty, Semantic Paraphasia
, Unrelated Paraphasia, Phonemic/Orthographic Paraphasia, Neologism, P
araphasic Jargon, Phonemic/Neologistic Jargon, Stereotypy, and Other.
All analyses were carried out on the difference scores, that is, the s
core in the second examination minus the score in the first examinatio
n. Results indicate that there is a significant decrease of No Reponse
s (in oral and written naming) and Neologisms (in oral naming), and a
significant increase of Orthographic Paraphasias in written naming. Mo
reover, the difference score for Phonemic/Orthographic Paraphasias was
higher in written than oral naming. The difference scores for the oth
er types of error were not statistically significant.