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Part 111 
Dissociations and Other 
Naming Phenomena 
The internal structure of the naming process has been illuminated by re-
cent studies of the fractionation of object naming capacities along the lines 
of input and output channels, on one hand, and along the lines of the con-
cepts to be named, on the other. Freund's (1889) description of 'optic apha-
sia' first called attention to the need to provide for a gateway between rel-
atively peripheral, prelinguistic input or output systems and a more 
central system of knowledge representation and name access. In the first 
of the two chapters in this section, Ria De Bleser presents a synthesis of sin-
gle-channel deficits of naming that may affect particular input or output 
pathways. 
Section II includes Tranel, Damasio, and Damasio's treatment of the 
anatomical basis for a number of category-specific naming dissociations, 
including those affecting the retrieval of proper nouns. In Chapter 5 of Part 
III, Carlo Semenza elaborates on the cognitive implications of aphasia for 
proper names, on the basis of in-depth study of his own clinical cases, and 
their relation to other cases in the literature.