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Names
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Definition of 'Names'Personal names, given or surname, as cultural characteristics, as ethnological or religious patterns, as indications of the geographic distribution of families and inbreeding, etc. Analysis of isonymy, the quality of having the same or similar names, is useful in the study of population genetics. NAMES is used also for the history of names or name changes of corporate bodies, such as medical societies, universities, hospitals, government agencies, etc. |
Monday, November 23, 2009
4 Oct 2009 
Five nonfluent aphasia patients participated in a picture-naming treatment that used an intention manipulation (opening a box and pressing a button on a device in the box with the left hand) to initiate naming trials and was designed to ... Read more...
29 Sep 2009 Person recognition has been assumed to entail many types of person-specific cognitive responses, including retrieval of knowledge, episodic recollection, and emotional responses. To demonstrate the cortical correlates of this modular structure of ... Read more...
Primed picture naming within and across languages: an ERP investigation.
30 Aug 2009 In two experiments, while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded, participants named picture targets that were preceded by masked word primes that corresponded either to the name of the picture target or to an unrelated picture name. ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Names'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Regional changes in word-production laterality after a naming treatment designed to produce a rightward shift in frontal activity. 4 Oct 2009
- Anatomical segregation of representations of personally familiar and famous people in the temporal and parietal cortices. 29 Sep 2009
- Primed picture naming within and across languages: an ERP investigation. 30 Aug 2009
- Auditory context effects in picture naming investigated with event-related fMRI. 30 Aug 2009
- Attentional requirements for the selection of words from different grammatical categories. 30 Aug 2009
- Inhibition in language switching: what is inhibited when switching between languages in naming tasks? 30 Aug 2009
- Journal club. An evolutionary biologist learns how to be remembered: cheat someone.
11 Aug 2009 - Species of redundancy in visual target detection. 30 Jul 2009
- Cortical mapping of naming errors in aphasia. 30 Jul 2009
- Semantic context and visual feature effects in object naming: an fMRI study using arterial spin labeling. 30 Jul 2009
- Lesion characteristics related to treatment improvement in object and action naming for patients with chronic aphasia. 19 Jul 2009
- Localization of cortical dysfunction based on auditory and visual naming performance. 29 Jun 2009
- Investigations in spontaneous discounting. 29 Jun 2009
- Cataloguing names the old-fashioned way. 17 Jun 2009
- Too much quantification hinders creativity. 17 Jun 2009
- Episodic simulation of future events is impaired in mild Alzheimer's disease. 31 May 2009
- Distribution of surnames over the Alto Adige-Südtirol region according to local geographic, historical and linguistic features. 30 May 2009
- Visual processing in Alzheimer's disease: surface detail and colour fail to aid object identification. 16 May 2009
- Mechanisms underlying the production of false memories for famous people's names in aging and Alzheimer's disease. 2 May 2009
- Abandoned babies in the UK - a review utilizing media reports. 29 Apr 2009
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Technical information about 'Names'
Definition: Personal names, given or surname, as cultural characteristics, as ethnological or religious patterns, as indications of the geographic distribution of families and inbreeding, etc. Analysis of isonymy, the quality of having the same or similar names, is useful in the study of population genetics. NAMES is used also for the history of names or name changes of corporate bodies, such as medical societies, universities, hospitals, government agencies, etc.
Descriptor UI: D009275
Alternative terms: Names; Name; Isonymy; Isonymies;
Tree Number: L01.143.506.598.400.556;
Technical Notes: for articles & books on personal given or surnames; history of names & name changes of agencies, societies, organizations, universities, medical schools, hospitals & other corporate bodies go here (NIM) + specific body if in MeSH as main heading (IM) or GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; SOCIETIES; UNIVERSITIES; HOSPITALS or other generic heading if specific corporate body is not in MeSH (IM); no qualif