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Auditory responsive naming versus visual confrontation naming in dementia.

Kimberly M Miller1, Glen R Finney, Kimford J Meador

  • 1Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. Kimberly.Miller9@va.gov

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Auditory responsive naming is more sensitive to dementia-related cognitive decline than visual confrontation naming. This finding suggests auditory naming tasks may better reflect the widespread brain changes associated with dementia.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuropsychology
  • Cognitive Neurology

Background:

  • Dysnomia (word-finding difficulty) is typically assessed using visual confrontation naming.
  • Responsive naming to description has a more distributed neural representation.
  • Naming deficits are common in dementia, but task sensitivity is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Compare visual confrontation naming and auditory responsive naming in dementia patients.
  • Investigate performance patterns across these naming tasks.
  • Determine the relative sensitivity of each task to dementia pathology.

Main Methods:

  • Fifty patients with mixed-etiology dementia completed both naming tasks.
  • Stimuli were matched for overall word frequency.
  • Performance was compared between tasks and dementia subtypes.

Main Results:

  • Patients performed significantly worse on auditory responsive naming than visual confrontation naming.
  • Mixed Alzheimer's/vascular dementia patients showed greater deficits in auditory naming.
  • Auditory naming correlated more strongly with executive function tests.

Conclusions:

  • Auditory responsive naming is more sensitive to dementia and lesion burden than visual confrontation naming.
  • This may reflect broader temporal lobe involvement and cognitive demands.
  • Responsive naming tasks offer valuable insights into dementia-related language impairments.