Figure 2. Main brain areas involved in the process of naming.

Left lateral view of the brain highlights regions that play an important role in recognizing an external stimulus as familiar (blue), obtaining semantic information about such stimulus (green), accessing its abstract mental representation (orange), and executing its name (purple). Notice that the inferior frontal gyrus (area 7) is crucial for the 2 latter stages, and is thus filled with a striped pattern of both colors.