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Confrontation Naming

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

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Word finding

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Confrontation naming involves the selection of a specific label corresponding to a viewed stimulus, usually a picture, of a viewed object or action. Confrontation naming also refers to a type of task used in assessment when problems with naming are of concern.

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Confrontation naming tasks often are incorporated as part of clinical language testing to detect impairments of word-finding abilities in individuals with various types of neurologic impairments typically affecting the left hemisphere of the brain (Spreen & Risser, 2003). Although word finding takes place during the course of sentence generation in conversational speech, it is most often tested clinically in confrontation naming tasks where the vocabulary tested is constrained to known, identified target words. Therefore, word-finding functions are at times referred to as naming abilities (e.g., Chialant, Costa, & Caramazza, 2002).

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  1. Professor of Early Childhood, Speech Pathology and Special Education, Old Dominion University, 110 Child Study Center, 23529-0136, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Anastasia Raymer

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

    John DeLuca

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    Bruce Caplan

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Raymer, A. (2011). Confrontation Naming. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_875

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