Picture/word matching tasks and word retrieval: Some follow-up data and second thoughts

Abstract

Marshall, Pound, White-Thomson and Pring (1990) reported the effects of using picture-to-word matching tasks on the subsequent naming of pictures by aphasic patients with word-finding problems. Further follow-up data collected more than a year after these experimental tasks continued to show that treated pictures were named better than untreated controls. Further discussion of the experimental task and of the abilities of the individual patients tested is offered in an attempt to isolate the source of this long-lasting effect on naming.