Anomia for people's names
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M Hittmair-Delazer1, G Denes, C Semenza
1Univ. Klinik für Neurologie, Innsbruck, Austria.
Neuropsychologia
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
The case of an anomia for people's names is reported. The study of this dissociation helps to clarify the difference in processing between proper and common names. Associated deficits in this and previously described cases provide support for the idea that an inability to retrieve arbitrary relations is the basis of the naming difficulty. This would confirm the role of proper names as purely referring expressions.