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We developed the Arabic Naming Test (ANT) as a culturally grounded picture-naming task and examined its preliminary clinical feasibility in Saudi Arabic-speaking adults.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this cross-sectional convenience-sample study, 75 neurotypical native Arabic-speaking adults and 30 adults with post-stroke aphasia completed a 90-item picture-confrontation naming task. Accuracy and response latency were recorded; participants with aphasia also completed a sequential semantic\u2013phonemic cueing protocol. Welch tests and age-adjusted sensitivity analyses compared groups.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The aphasia group had lower ANT scores than neurotypical peers (\n                      <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                      =\u202f49.50, SD\u202f=\u202f31.66 vs.\n                      <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                      =\u202f87.55, SD\u202f=\u202f3.48; Welch\u2019s\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      (29.3)\u202f=\u202f\u22126.57,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt;\u202f0.001; Hedges\u2019\n                      <jats:italic>g<\/jats:italic>\n                      =\u202f\u22122.21) and slower mean response latency per item (\n                      <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 1.80\u202fs vs.\n                      <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 1.06\u202fs; Welch\u2019s t(29.8)\u202f=\u202f3.77,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt;\u202f0.001; Hedges\u2019\n                      <jats:italic>g<\/jats:italic>\n                      =\u202f1.24). These group differences remained statistically significant in age-adjusted sensitivity analyses. Sequential semantic\u2013phonemic cueing analyses of 30 participants showed reductions in description, miscellaneous, no-response, and semantic errors after adjustment for multiple comparisons. On average, 17.17 items (SD\u202f=\u202f18.46) were named correctly after phonemic cueing and 2.90 items (SD\u202f=\u202f3.32) after semantic cueing alone.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this preliminary convenience sample, the ANT showed substantial known-groups differences between Saudi Arabic-speaking neurotypical adults and adults with post-stroke aphasia and generated descriptive cueing and error-profile observations. These findings support continued development of a culturally grounded Arabic naming measure; however, larger, demographically balanced multi-site studies are needed before formal reliability, psychometric validation, diagnostic accuracy, or clinically meaningful thresholds can be established.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fneur.2026.1954019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,16]],"date-time":"2026-09-16T05:32:01Z","timestamp":1789536721000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A culturally grounded Arabic naming task differentiates Saudi Arabic-speaking adults with post-stroke aphasia from neurotypical adults"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Maha","family":"Aldera","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Communication Sciences, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman 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