Confrontation naming in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy: a quantitative analysis of paraphasic error subtypes. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Although confrontation naming deficits have been observed in dominant temporal lobe epilepsy (DTLE), the relative contribution of impoverished phonologic word retrieval and/or semantic knowledge remains unclear. Analysis of verbal-semantic, phonemic-literal, and combination paraphasias produced during confrontation naming by participants with seizure disorders (52 DTLE; 47 nondominant temporal lobe epilepsy [NDTLE]; 54 psychogenic nonepileptic seizures [PNES]) indicated that the frequency of: (a) verbal-semantic paraphasias was similar across groups, (b) phonemic-literal paraphasias was highest in DTLE, and (c) combination paraphasias was lowest in PNES. Confrontation naming ability was most strongly related to phonemic-literal paraphasia frequency in DTLE and to verbal IQ in both NDTLE and PNES. Greater confrontation naming deficits in DTLE may be attributed to impairments in phonological processing.

publication date

  • September 1, 2005

Research

keywords

  • Anomia
  • Aphasia
  • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
  • Phonetics
  • Verbal Behavior

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 26444558078

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1037/0894-4105.19.5.603

PubMed ID

  • 16187878

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 19

issue

  • 5