Lexical retrieval for common nouns and verbs was measured using 2 picture naming tests in
162 healthy female and male subjects aged 30 to 79 years. Responses were scored for …

This study tests the hypothesis that retrieval of object and action names declines at different
rates with age. Uncued and cued performance on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) and the …

Older people seem to have difficulty learning new materials, perhaps because it takes them
longer to retrieve relevant encoding information from memory. To assess the effects of age …

Using longitudinal data on the Boston Naming Test (Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983)
collected over 20 years from healthy individuals aged 30 to 94, we examined change in …

Longitudinal performance on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) was evaluated in 53 normal
subjects aged 30 to 79 who were each tested three times over a 7-year span. Naming …

Twenty-four young and 24 old adults participated in a lexical decision task (Study 1) in which
they judged whether letter strings were words. No age differences were found in either …

We administered to 80 optimally healthy subjects, 30–80 years old, the Boston Naming Test,
a test of confrontation naming. Results indicated that naming ability remains fairly stable …

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 …

This study investigated the impaired lexical access and semantic degradation hypotheses
as two potential explanations of naming failures in normal aging. Naming responses on the …

This article examines whether age-related difficulties in word retrieval are reflected in the
lexical frequency of the nouns selected for production. Participants (N= 136; age range 20 …