Milders M W, Deelman B, Berg I
Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 1999 Apr;21(2):171-85. doi: 10.1076/jcen.21.2.171.932.
Patients with closed-head injury frequently complain about difficulties with retrieving the names of familiar people, but very few studies have investigated these complaints by objective measurements. Three experiments are reported that compared personal name retrieval in patients with severe closed-head injuries and normal controls. The patients more frequently failed to produce the names of famous persons, and had longer naming latencies than the controls. Accuracy of recognizing familiar persons was normal in the patients, even though they were slower in this task than the controls. The patients' main problem appeared to involve a disturbance in activating the stored name information. The patients' response pattern shows clear resemblance with simulations of the effects of brain damage in models for person naming.
闭合性颅脑损伤患者经常抱怨难以想起熟悉的人的名字，但很少有研究通过客观测量来调查这些抱怨。本文报告了三项实验，比较了重度闭合性颅脑损伤患者和正常对照组在个人名字检索方面的情况。患者更频繁地想不起名人的名字，并且命名潜伏期比对照组更长。尽管患者在识别熟悉的人这项任务中比对照组慢，但他们识别熟悉的人的准确率正常。患者的主要问题似乎涉及激活存储的名字信息时出现了障碍。患者的反应模式与在人名命名模型中模拟脑损伤影响的情况明显相似。
