Abstract：
:Multidisciplinary efforts are being made to provide surgical teams with sensitive and specific tasks for language mapping in awake surgery. Researchers and clinicians have elaborated different tasks over time. A fair amount of work has been directed to study the neurofunctional correlates of some of these tasks, and there is recent interest in their standardization. However, little discussion exists on the advantages and disadvantages that each task poses from the perspective of the cognitive neuroscience of language. Such an approach may be a relevant step to assess task validity, to avoid using tasks that tap onto similar processes, and to provide patients with a surgical treatment that ensures maximal tumor resection while avoiding postoperative language deficits. An understanding of the language components that each task entails may also be relevant to improve the current assessments and the ways in which tasks are administered, and to disentangle neurofunctional questions. We reviewed 17 language mapping tasks that have been used in awake surgery. Overt production tasks have been a preferred choice over comprehension tasks. Tasks tapping lexico-semantic processes, particularly object-naming, maintain their role as gold standards. Automated speech tasks are used to detect speech errors and to set the amplitude of the stimulator. Comprehension tasks, reading and writing tasks, and tasks that assess grammatical aspects of language may be regularly administered in the near future. We provide examples of a three-task approach we are administering to patients with prefrontal lesions. We believe that future advances in this area are contingent upon reviewing gold standards and introducing new assessment tools.
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J Neurosurg Scijournal_title
Journal of neurosurgical sciencesauthors
Rofes A,Spena G,Miozzo A,Fontanella MM,Miceli Gsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-12-01 00:00:00pages
337-49issue
4eissn
0390-5616issn
1827-1855pii
R38Y9999N00A150062journal_volume
59pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:The association in the same patient between two meningiomas and an astrocytoma of the third ventricle is presented. All tumors were removed in two surgical sessions. The unusual occurrence of such associations, except for the so-called phakomatoses, is emphasized. Other similar cases drawn from the literature are tabl...
journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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doi：10.23736/S0390-5616.17.04156-X
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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doi：
更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0390-5616.16.02901-5
更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0390-5616.20.05165-6
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Journal of neurosurgical sciences
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