Strauss E, Semenza C, Hunter M, Hermann B, Barr W, Chelune G, Lavdovsky S, Loring D, Perrine K, Trenerry M, Westerveld M
University of Victoria.
Brain Cogn. 2000 Jun-Aug;43(1-3):403-6.
Damasio and colleagues (1996) have proposed that the left anterior temporal region supports knowledge pertaining to living objects, whereas more posterior temporal regions play a critical role in naming nonliving things. Accordingly, one might expect that left-sided anterior temporal lobectomy should have a more profound effect on the naming of living as opposed to nonliving things. As part of a multicenter collaborative project, seventy-nine patients (all left-hemisphere speech dominant) were tested pre- and post-left-temporal lobectomy on a task that required naming of living and nonliving items equated for name frequency, familiarity, and visual complexity. Consistent with the proposals of Damasio et al. (1996), left temporal lobectomy impaired naming ability, particularly for living things. When individual outcomes were considered, twice as many patients showed a relative decline in naming living as opposed to nonliving things.
达马西奥及其同事（1996年）提出，左前颞叶区域支持与有生命物体相关的知识，而颞叶更靠后的区域在命名无生命物体时起关键作用。因此，人们可能会预期，左侧颞前叶切除术对有生命物体的命名影响比对无生命物体的命名影响更大。作为一个多中心合作项目的一部分，79名患者（均为左半球语言优势）在左侧颞叶切除术前和术后接受了一项任务测试，该任务要求对有生命和无生命物品进行命名，这些物品在名称频率、熟悉程度和视觉复杂性方面是等同的。与达马西奥等人（1996年）的提议一致，左侧颞叶切除术损害了命名能力，尤其是对有生命物体的命名能力。当考虑个体结果时，表现出有生命物体命名相对下降的患者数量是无生命物体命名相对下降患者数量的两倍。
