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TASK
Boston Naming Test
assesses the ability to name pictures of objects through spontaneous responses and need for various types of cueing, inferences can be drawn regarding language facility and possible localization of cerebral damage.

Definition contributed by BGregory about ten months ago.

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lexical access
  • percent correct (number of correct responses/number of total pictures)
 

lexical retrieval
  • percent correct (number of correct responses/number of total pictures)
 

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Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:

assesses the ability to name pictures of objects through spontaneous responses and need for various types of cueing, inferences can be drawn regarding language facility and possible localization of cerebral damage. (from http://www.brainsource.com/nptests.htm)

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Definition contributed by SAdministrator about two years ago:

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Effects of health status on word finding in aging.
Albert ML, Spiro A 3rd, Sayers KJ, Cohen JA, Brady CB, Goral M, Obler LK
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (J Am Geriatr Soc)
2009 Dec
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Differential item functioning of the Boston Naming Test in cognitively normal African American and Caucasian older adults.
Pedraza O, Graff-Radford NR, Smith GE, Ivnik RJ, Willis FB, Petersen RC, Lucas JA
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS (J Int Neuropsychol Soc)
2009 Sep
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Improved language in a chronic nonfluent aphasia patient after treatment with CPAP and TMS.
Naeser MA, Martin PI, Lundgren K, Klein R, Kaplan J, Treglia E, Ho M, Nicholas M, Alonso M, Pascual-Leone A
Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology (Cogn Behav Neurol)
2010 Mar
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