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Nominal Aphasia: Problems in Name Retrieval
It happens to all of us occasionally. As you walk down the hallway you see a familiar face—someone you have recently met—you reach into your brain expecting a complicated series of synaptic firing to bring forth the name person in front of you only to be disappointed.
As you walk down the hallway you see a familiar face—someone you have recently met—you reach into your brain expecting a complicated series of synaptic firing to bring forth the name person in front of you only to be disappointed. Specialists characterize the following fundamental stages of the name retrieval process as conceptual preparation, followed by word generation proceeding through lexical selection, morphological and phonological encoding, followed by vocal articulation. Research suggests that when an individual views a recently learned face, a response is triggered in the brain that reactivates distributed cortical networks linked by hippocampal connections.
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