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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Abstract The Boston Naming Test has enjoyed increasing use in many research studies
since its introduction. However, there is little normative data on the age group above 60 …

Picture-naming performance for 48 black-and-white drawings was investigated in 1,145
Hebrew speakers, ages 5–86. Both a linear and a curvilinear quadratic model fit the data …

In this article, the task of separating specific from general effects of normal aging on
cognition is illustrated by considering the retrieval of proper names as a possible case of …

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 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 …