MULTIMAP: Multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake surgeries
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2021Egilea
Gisbert Muñoz, Sandra
Quiñones, Ileana
Amoruso, Lucia
Timofeeva, Polina
Geng, Shuang
Boudelaa, Sami
Pomposo, Iñigo
Gil Robles, Santiago
Carreiras, Manuel
Gisbert-Muñoz, S., Quiñones, I., Amoruso, L. et al. MULTIMAP: Multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake surgeries. Behav Res 53, 918–927 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01467-4
Laburpena
Picture naming tasks are currently the gold standard for identifying and preserving language-related areas during awake brain
surgery. With multilingual populations increasing worldwide, patients frequently need to be tested in more than one language.
There is still no reliable testing instrument, as the available batteries have been developed for specific languages. Heterogeneity in
the selection criteria for stimuli leads to differences, for example, in the size, color, image quality, and even names associated with
pictures, making direct cross-linguistic comparisons difficult. Here we present MULTIMAP, a new multilingual picture naming
test for mapping eloquent areas during awake brain surgery. Recognizing that the distinction between nouns and verbs is
necessary for detailed and precise language mapping, MULTIMAP consists of a database of 218 standardized color pictures
representing both objects and actions. These images have been tested for name agreement with speakers of Spanish, Basque,
Catalan, Italian, French, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic, and have been controlled for relevant linguistic
features in cross-language combinations. The MULTIMAP test for objects and verbs represents an alternative to the Oral
Denomination 80 (DO 80) monolingual pictorial set currently used in language mapping, providing an open-source, standardized
set of up-to-date pictures, where relevant linguistic variables across several languages have been taken into account in picture
creation and selection.