摘要：Anterior temporal lobectomy is widely used for treatment of intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. Intraoperative language mapping routinely involves rote speech production and/or confrontation naming. Some patients experience a decline in naming postoperatively, although research has yielded conflicting results as to the cause, nature and extent of these deficits. Based on Damasio et al/s (1996) convergence model in naming, our pilot study (2007) identified anterior temporal lobe language sites when incorporating tools, animals and femiliar feces, in our mapping protocol. The purpose of our present investigation was to replicate these results in a larger sample size and to determine the existence of specific category e&cts.
