Naming famous people through face and voice: a normative study
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Naming famous people through face and voice: a normative study Chiara Piccininni 1 & Guido Gainotti 1,2 & Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo 2 & Simona Luzzi 3 & Costanza Papagno 4,5 & Luigi Trojano 6,7 & Antonia Ferrara 7 & Camillo Marra 1 & Davide Quaranta 8 Received: 3 September 2019 / Accepted: 24 January 2020 # Fondazione Società Italiana di Neurologia 2020
Abstract Objectives Within the large topic of naming disorders, an important and separated chapter belongs to proper names. Defects of proper naming could be a selective linguistic problem. Sometimes, it includes names belonging to various kinds of semantically unique entities, but other times, it has been observed for famous people proper names only. According to Bruce and Young’s model, different stages allow to recognize, identify, and name famous people from their faces and voices, subsuming different anatomical pathways, both in right temporal lobe, and their different efficiency in this task. The present study aimed to report the normative data concerning the naming of the same famous people from voice and face. Subjects and methods One hundred fifty-three normal subjects underwent a test in which they were requested to name famous people from their face and from their voice. The stimuli belonged to the previously published Famous People Recognition Battery. Results The mean percentage score on naming from face was 84.42 ± 12.03% (range 55.26–100%) and the mean percentage score on naming from voice was 66.04 ± 16.81% (range 28.13–100%). The difference observed in performance by face and by voice resulted significant (t|153 = 15.973; p < 0.001). Regression analyses showed that the percentage score obtained on naming from faces was predicted by education, whereas naming from voice was predicted by education and gender. Discussion Naming from voice is more difficult than from face, confirming a different difficulty of the two tasks. Education showed high predicting value for faces and less for voices, whereas gender contributed to predict results only for voices. Keywords Face . Voice . Temporal lobe . Naming . Famous people . Famous person
Introduction * Chiara Piccininni [email protected] 1
Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, L.go A. Gemelli, 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
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Laboratory of Clinical and Behavioural Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
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Department of Psychology, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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CeRiN and CIMeC, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
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Department of Psychology, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Caserta, Italy
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ICS Maugeri, IRCCS, Telese Terme, Italy
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Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “Agostino Gemelli”, Rome, Italy
Within the large and heterogeneous chapter of naming disorders, an important section is devoted to proper names. Some authors [1–10] have, indeed, described patients wh
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