ReviewNeuropsychology review2014
Language mapping with verbs and sentences in awake surgery: a review.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evaluating Spelling in Glioma Patients Undergoing Awake Surgery: a Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2018Pooled it
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- Persian Paradigm for Language Cortical Mapping: Development, Feasibility, and Evaluation.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Intraoperative Techniques for Language Mapping in Brain Surgery: A Comparison Between Direct Electrical Stimulation (DES) and Electrocorticography (ECoG).Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Language testing in awake craniotomy for brain tumor resection: A survey of current perioperative practice in the United Kingdom.Neuro-oncology practice · 2025Article
- Leveraging relatedness-based measures in people with language disorders: A scoping review.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Article
- Awake brain surgery: toward optimal cognitive explorations.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Guidelines for Awake Surgery.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2024Article
- Mapping action naming in patients with gliomas: The influence of transitivity.Neuroimage. Reports · 2023Article
- Evaluating syntactic comprehension during awake intraoperative cortical stimulation mapping.Journal of neurosurgery · 2023Article
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- Passive functional mapping of receptive language cortex during general anesthesia using electrocorticography.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation modulates action naming over the left but not right inferior frontal gyrus.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- The Use of Standardized Intraoperative Language Tests in Awake Craniotomies: A Scoping Review.Neuropsychology review · 2022Article
- Bihemispheric Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Mapping for Action Naming Compared to Object Naming in Sentence Context.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- A Novel Language Paradigm for Intraoperative Language Mapping: Feasibility and Evaluation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Language Assessment in Multilingualism and Awake Neurosurgery.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Intraoperative Cognitive Mapping Tasks for Direct Electrical Stimulation in Clinical and Neuroscientific Contexts.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
Intraoperative language mapping in awake surgery is typically conducted by asking the patient to produce automatic speech and to name objects. These tasks might not map language with sufficient accuracy, as some linguistic processes can only be triggered by tasks that use verbs and sentences. Verb and sentence processing tasks are currently used during surgery, albeit sparsely. Medline, PubMed, and Web of Science records were searched to retrieve studies focused on language mapping with verbs/sentences in awake surgery. We review the tasks reported in the published literature, spell out the language processes assessed by each task, list the cortical and subcortical regions whose stimulation inhibited language processing, and consider the types of errors elicited by stimulation in each region. We argue that using verb tasks allows a more thorough evaluation of language functions. We also argue that verb tasks are preferable to object naming tasks in the case of frontal lesions, as lesion and neuroimaging data demonstrate that these regions play a critical role in verb and sentence processing. We discuss the clinical value of these tasks and the current limitations of the procedure, and provide some guidelines for their development. Future research should aim toward a differentiated approach to language mapping - one that includes the administration of standardized and customizable tests and the use of longitudinal neurocognitive follow-up studies. Further work will allow researchers and clinicians to understand brain and language correlates and to improve the current surgical practice.
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