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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Boston Naming Test"”.
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Boston Naming Test with Latencies (BNT-L)
… conducted to establish a modified version of the Boston Naming Test (BNT) that includes latency times, the Boston Naming Test of Latencies (BNT-L), in order to improve the instrument's sensitivity to mild to moderate word-finding impairment. Experiment 1: Latency times on the 60-item BNT …
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Investigating the psychometric properties of a South African adaptation of the Boston Naming Test : evidence for diagnostic validity from a memory clinic population
The Boston Naming Test (BNT) is a popular confrontation naming test that is frequently used in the detection of naming deficits in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the test may not be appropriate when used outside of North America due to the influence of varying word frequency and familiarity …
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Test re-test reliability of the Boston Naming Test and the Visual Naming Test on normal subjects with a comparison to subjects with complex partial seizure disorder.
… shown to result in deficits of confrontation naming or anomia. The Boston Naming Test (BNT) and the Visual Naming Test (VNT) are both standardized measures of naming ability. Serving as a neurologically intact group, thirty adult volunteers from the Windsor area were administered the BNT, VNT …
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Exploring language production, comprehension and naming in adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
… of language production, comprehension and naming in children with moderate or heavy prenatal exposure to alcohol, and ii) to determine if these domains are a specific weakness in these children. The study compared 25 children with FASD to 25 typically developing non-alcohol exposed controls …
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Language Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury While Controlling for Effort
… Similarities, Information, and Comprehension subtests; the Boston Naming Test; the Phonemic and Semantic cue conditions of the Controlled Oral Word Association Test; the Auditory Comprehension subtest of the Cognistat; Wide Range Achievement Test-3 Reading subtest; and the Peabody Picture …
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Development and Validation of a New Naming Task: The Southwestern Item Fluency Test (SWIFT)
Tests of confrontation naming play an important role in the clinical assessment of language. Commonly used naming tests have a variety of limitations including ceiling effects, outdated stimuli, differential item functioning across groups, and often ignore speed of word retrieval even though this …
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The relationship of language and performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)
… Status (RBANS). Language ability was measured as naming ability and verbal fluency via the Boston Naming Test, Second Edition (BNT-2) and Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) Verbal Fluency Condition 1: Letter Fluency and Condition 2: Category Fluency. Participants included 64 college …
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Expressive language development in twins versus singletons at early school age
… scores on the Stanford Binet Vocabulary subtest (Thorndike, Hagen, & Sattler, 1986) and the Boston Naming Test (Goodglass & Kaplan, 2001) were converted into a Formal Language Composite. Mean comparisons via t-test revealed no group differences between twins and on either of the composites. …
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The effect of phonological and semantic cues on word retrieval in adults
… effective in stimulating word retrieval during naming tasks (Li & Williams 1989; Stirnley & Noll 1991 ). However, research has not investigated the effects of combining these two cues during picture naming tasks. The current study observed participants under four different cueing conditions …
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PREDICTORS OF APHASIA TREATMENT OUTCOME
… and phonological treatment for anomia, a naming impairment common among all aphasic patients. Using trained and untrained items as measures of correct naming improvement, the following analyses were performed: 1) a partial correlation examined whether participants who began the semantic …
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Head-Impact-Related Outcomes by Position in Retired NFL Football Players
… of Nova Southeastern University. One-Sample T-Tests indicated that the combined sample and the Skilled players group demonstrated significant differences in all neuropsychological measures, while the Linemen and Skilled Linemen evidenced impairment in most areas except in visual-spatial and …
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Identifying Predictors of Reversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Normal Cognition
… Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes scores, and higher test scores on Logical Memory Delayed Recall, Vegetable Fluency, and Boston Naming Test at baseline. ROC curve results revealed a standard z-score of -1.16 or better on Logical Memory Delayed Recall as an accurate classification of the MCI reversion …
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Neuropsychological and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigations of anterior temporal lobe language function in patients with epilepsy : a pilot study
… implicate the ATL in language function, and naming difficulties are commonly reported by TLE patients post-surgically, the role of the ATL in language is not well understood. The present study aimed to examine the role of the ATL in language function, and methods for evaluating pre- and …
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Benefit of Phonemic Cueing in Alzheimer's Disease Patients' Naming Performance: Baseline Correlates and Predictive Utility
… difficulty, especially when confronted with naming items, is a well-known problem that many individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) encounter. The use of neuropsychological measures, imaging technology, and genetic research has all contributed to the understanding of naming deficits in AD …
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The Long-Term Cognitive and Psychological Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)
… Concussions. The battery was composed of tests divided into one of five areas of cognition: Complex Attention and Processing Speed, Learning and Memory, Visual-Perceptual Processing, Language, or Executive Function. These results were assessed with descriptive statistics, linear …