ABSTRACT
The starting point for neuropsychological rehabilitation should be a secure model of the cognitive function to be restored. Such a model should have built into it the possibilities of dysfunctions of components that correspond to observed behaviors in neuropathological conditions. A model of stages in the oral naming of stimuli in one modality, vision, is presented. It includes both the naming of objects and of written words. No distinction is made between the naming of objects and the naming of pictures because there is no evidence for any distinction in difficulty between them in "classical anomia." The validity of the model presented and its neuropsychological, is crucial in planning the thrust of therapy for anomia. The model of parallel distributed memory he applies to aphasia implies that a store does not exist independently of access to it because continuous processing and activation are inherent in the nature of the "store."
