Fifty-seven cognitively intact geriatric medical patients were given the Boston Naming Test in
order to provide preliminary normative data on a group of less highly educated older adults …

Cross-sectional studies of cognitive aging compare age groups at 1 time point. It is unclear
from such studies whether age-related cognitive differences remain stable across time. We …

Abbreviated neuropsychological protocols are increasingly utilized secondary to time-
constraints within research and healthcare settings, yet normative data for these abbreviated …

Young and old adults were shown pictured or written verbs and asked to name them as
quickly as possible. Simultaneous multiple regression was used to investigate which of a set …

An important determinant of picture and word naming speed is the age at which the names
were learned (age of acquisition). Two related interpretations of these effects are that they …

This study compared the word-finding abilities of 26 young adults (ages 18–22 years), 26
young-old adults (ages 58–74 years), and 26 old-old adults (ages 75–93 years) on a …

Previous research testing age-related learning and memory problems specific to proper
names has yielded mixed results. In the present experiments, young and older participants …

The authors analyzed the role of individual differences in age, gender, and 16-year declines
in reasoning and vocabulary as predictors of 16-year changes in text and list recall and …

The question of whether lexical access for proper names is more impaired by ageing than
lexical acess for other words is controversial. The aim of the present investigation was to …

Everyday name‐recall tests were administered to 1205 adults ranging in age from 18 to 90
years. They were asked to recall sets of four, six, or 14 names of individuals who introduced …