Abstract： Objective To study the category specific cortices for naming famous faces,animals and tools in patients with lesions near eloquent areas.Methods Using awake procedures,the category specific naming cortices were detected by intraoperative direct electrical stimulation using a category specific naming task in 13 patients with brain lesions in cerebral hemisphere.Results 28 dysphasia cortical sites were found.Among four sites displayed paraphasia,one was face-specific,the other three sites were common for three categories.Among 24 sites displayed anoima,6 sites were face-specific,4 sites were common for both faces and animals,and 10 sites for both animals and tools.There was no site specific for naming animals only,naming tools only or common site for naming both famous faces and tools.Conclusion There are some cortices specific for naming of famous faces.This finding suggests pictures of famous faces should be adopted during intra-operative language mapping to get a broader map of language function,in order to minimize the incidence of "false-negative" stimulations and permanent post-operative deficits.