The purpose of this study was to validate a reduced version (15 items) of the Boston Naming
Test (BNT) in a sample of 78 low-educational elderly persons with or without dementia, as …

The present study tested the generalizability of the adult age deficit commonly found for
recognition of word content to the recognition of a nonsemantic attribute. The nonsemantic …

The authors describe assessment of 16-year changes in memory and intellectual abilities in
a sample of 106 adults ages 30–36 and 55–81 at baseline. Results suggest that there are …

The present study concerns the effect of aging on speed of lexical access. Normative word-
frequency was manipulated in a lexical decision task with older and younger adults. Three …

A category effect (ie, living vs. nonliving exemplars) in confrontation naming has been
reported in association with various cerebral pathologies. However, the published reports …

The present experiment examined adult age differences in semantic priming effects and
subsequent episodic retention for visually presented words. Twenty-four young (18-22 …

Three groups of people ranging in age from 64 to 88 years performed tasks of word
generation, paired-associate recall, and free and cued recall. The groups differed in …

Abstract Boston Naming Test normative data for 123 elderly adults are provided for use in
urban, demographically diverse, medical settings. Study 1 examined the association …

Vocabulary knowledge may not be a unidimensional construct, and the relations between
vocabulary knowledge and age may depend on the aspect of vocabulary knowledge being …

The current study examines visual word recognition in a large sample (N= 148) across the
adult life span and across a large set of stimuli (N= 1,187) in three different lexical …