The main interest of the study was to compare the word-onset duration necessary to elicit the correct names under this condition with recognition times for these same words when presented in a gated format alone, without any picture presentation. Fourteen normal subjects were also tested. The results showed that the aphasic subjects as a group were able to give the correct target word from just the gated words in the No Picture condition within an average of 368 msec of word onset (corresponding to 56% of word-onset duration) as compared to 297 msec of mean gate size duration for word recognition without a picture by control subjects.