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  • Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Clinical Neurology

Background:

  • Awake surgery requires precise language mapping using picture-naming tests to prevent iatrogenic damage.
  • Accurate pre- and post-operative assessment of naming abilities necessitates large, normed, and standardized stimulus sets.
  • Intraoperative tasks must use items named flawlessly before surgery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the design, norming, and presentation of two sets of Italian stimuli for object and verb naming.
  • To introduce a minimal standardization setting for developing psycholinguistic stimuli.
  • To enhance the reliability of detecting language impairments and reduce surgical errors.

Main Methods:

  • Developed two sets of Italian stimuli (object and verb naming).
  • Included a naming study for picture-name agreement, and online questionnaires for age-of-acquisition and imageability ratings.
  • Normed stimuli for psycholinguistic variables affecting lexical access and retrieval, validated in a clinical population.

Main Results:

  • Stimuli sets achieved >80% picture-name agreement.
  • High internal consistency and reliability for imageability and age of acquisition ratings.
  • Normed for key psycholinguistic variables and validated in clinical populations.

Conclusions:

  • The developed stimuli and framework improve reliable detection of language impairments before and after surgery.
  • Enables preparation of intraoperative tests based on pre-surgical patient language abilities.
  • Decreases the probability of false positives during intraoperative language mapping.