MULTIMAP: Multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake surgeries
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MULTIMAP: Multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake surgeries Sandra Gisbert-Muñoz 1,2 & Ileana Quiñones 1 & Lucia Amoruso 1,3 & Polina Timofeeva 1,2 & Shuang Geng 1,2 & Sami Boudelaa 4 & Iñigo Pomposo 5 & Santiago Gil-Robles 5,6 & Manuel Carreiras 1,2,3
# The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Picture naming tasks are currently the gold standard for identifying and preserving language-related areas during awake brain surgery. With multilingual populations increasing worldwide, patients frequently need to be tested in more than one language. There is still no reliable testing instrument, as the available batteries have been developed for specific languages. Heterogeneity in the selection criteria for stimuli leads to differences, for example, in the size, color, image quality, and even names associated with pictures, making direct cross-linguistic comparisons difficult. Here we present MULTIMAP, a new multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake brain surgery. Recognizing that the distinction between nouns and verbs is necessary for detailed and precise language mapping, MULTIMAP consists of a database of 218 standardized color pictures representing both objects and actions. These images have been tested for name agreement with speakers of Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Italian, French, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic, and have been controlled for relevant linguistic features in cross-language combinations. The MULTIMAP test for objects and verbs represents an alternative to the Oral Denomination 80 (DO 80) monolingual pictorial set currently used in language mapping, providing an open-source, standardized set of up-to-date pictures, where relevant linguistic variables across several languages have been taken into account in picture creation and selection. Keywords Language mapping . Nouns . Verbs . Awake brain surgery . Multilingual
Introduction Sandra Gisbert-Muñoz and Ileana Quiñones contributed equally to this work. Publication history: This manuscript was previously published in bioRxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.20.957282 * Sandra Gisbert-Muñoz [email protected] * Ileana Quiñones [email protected] 1
BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Paseo Mikeletegi, 69, 20009 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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IKERBASQUE. Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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BioCruces Research Institute, Bilbao, Spain
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Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud, Madrid, Spain
Human language is a complex system of communication that supports the decoding, encoding, and transfer of information between individuals. It is a system that allows for communication not only about the here and now, but also about the past, the future, truths, lies, hopes, and desires. It is important for personal growth and socialization, but also for human development as the vehicle for cultural transmission. Losi
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