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The Boston Naming Test-South African Short Form, Part I: Psychometric properties in a group of healthy English-speaking university students

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2019
The Boston Naming Test (BNT) is a popular cognitive test designed to detect word-finding difficulties in neurologic disease. However, numerous studies have demonstrated the BNT’s inherent cultural bias and cautioned against uncritical administration ...
Kevin G.F. Thomas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Normative Data Collection and Comparison of Performance on the Poreh Naming Test to the Boston Naming Test

open access: yes, 2012
Although word-finding difficulty is commonly self-reported by older adults, there are no clinical instruments able to reliably distinguish normal age-related effects from pathology in word-finding impairments.
Biesan, Orion R.
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Boston naming test results for healthy older Australians: A longitudinal and cross-sectional study

open access: yes, 2000
This study reports on a sample of normal Australian elderly who were assessed for naming ability using the Boston Naming Test (BNT). The study aimed to examine and compare the changes in naming ability, using both longitudinal and cross-sectional ...
Hickson, L. M. H.   +2 more
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Development of Short Form of the Korean Version- the Boston Naming Test (K-BNT-15) Based on Item Response Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Impaired naming difficulty is common in normal elderly as well as in patients with neurological impairment. The 60-item Korean version-Boston Naming Test(K-BNT) is one of the most commonly used test for measuring confrontational naming ability.
김향희
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Assessing lexical production in deaf signing children with the Boston Naming Test

open access: yes, 2010
A picture naming task, the Boston Naming Test, originally developed for spoken language, has been adapted to Italian Sign Language in order to assess the vocabulary of Italian deaf signing children. Thirty deaf and thirty hearing children and adolescents
Laura Fellini   +3 more
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Analysis of brief language tests in the detection of cognitive decline and dementia

open access: yesDementia & Neuropsychologia
Lexical access difficulties are frequent in normal aging and initial stages of dementia. Verbal fluency tests are valuable to detect cognitive decline, evidencing lexico-semantic and executive dysfunction.
Marcia Radanovic   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Language disorders and brain lesion topography in aphasics after stroke

open access: yesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2012
Aphasia is a language disorder associated with focal brain lesions. Although the topographic definition of the language area has been widely accepted, there is not necessarily any direct correlation between the lesion site and the manifested symptoms ...
Michele Devido-Santos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of a training programme stimulating language functions on Alzheimer-type dementia and maintenance of language skills

open access: yesAktualności Neurologiczne, 2017
In dementia of the Alzheimer’s type, memory and language impairments coexist, occur early and aggravate with time. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of our proprietary language function stimulating programme on cognitive functions and the ...
Andrzej Potemkowski   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drawing and responsive naming in aphasia

open access: yes, 1987
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston UniversitySeventeen aphasic men, divided into diagnostic categories including Broca, Wernicke, subcortical, anomie and transcortical sensory, were administered a responsive naming task consisting of 30 target probe questions from ...
Young, Suzanne H.
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Subclinical naming errors in mild cognitive impairment: A semantic deficit?

open access: yesDementia & Neuropsychologia
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the transitional stage between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Impairments in semantic memory have been demonstrated to be a critical factor in early AD.
Indra F. Willers   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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