A task in which a patient is required to point at some pictures. This task can be performed on a orthographic input (e.g. graphic representation of words), an auditory input (e.g. phonemes), or a visual input (e.g. objects), used for the rehabilitation of the phonological output lexicon.
EXPERIMENT 1 Purpose: Question of whether auditory word-to-picture matching facilitates picture naming by aphasic patient, and whether the effects are stable over a time interval of twenty minutes. Method: Subjects: 15 aphasic patients; 9 men, 6 women with left CVA. Procedure: 16 naming failures assigned to 4 experimental treatments conditions: 1) pointing and naming: items treated by pointing on auditory command to one of 4 pictures and then, after 6 intervening events, target pictures presented for intermediate naming; presented again for naming in post-test; 2) pointing and naming control: intermediate naming without prior treatment by auditory word- to-picture matching; tested again in post-test; 3) pointing only: auditory word-to-picture matching as treatment; no intermediate naming practice; presented for naming in post-test; 4) pointing only control: no experimental treatment; presented for final naming in post test.