Is the Boston naming test still fit for purpose

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 486-504

  Harry, Alexandra ^a   Crowe, Simon F ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Boston Naming Test; Confrontation naming; Language assessment; Word finding difficulty

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BOSTON NAMING TEST; CONFRONTATION NAMING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT.; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; STANDARD; WORD FINDING DIFFICULTY;

APHASIA; BOSTON NAMING TEST; CONFRONTATION NAMING; LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT.; WORD FINDING DIFFICULTY;

HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 84900479698     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2014.892155     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Adlington R. Laws K. & Gale T. (2009a ). Visual processing in Alzheimer's disease: Surface detail and colour fail to aid object identification. N europsychologia 47 2574-2583. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychogia. 2009.05.004.
2. Adlington R. Laws K. & Gale T. (2009b ). The Hatfield Image Test (HIT): A new picture test and norms for experimental and cl inical use. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 31 731-753. doi:10.1080/ 138033390802488103.
3. Axelrod B. Ricker J. & Cherry S. (1994). Concurrent validity of the MAE visual naming test. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 9 317-321.
4. Barbarotto R. Capitani E. & Laiacona M. (1996). Naming deficit in herpes simplex encephalitis. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 93 272-280.
5. Benson F. (1988). Anomia in aphasia. Aphasiology 2 229-236.
6. Bortnik K. Boone K. Wen J. Lu P. Mitrushina M. Razani J. & Maury T. (2013) . Survey results regarding use of the Boston Naming Test: Houston we have a problem. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 35 857-866.
7. Bramao I. Reis A. Petersson K. & Faísca L. (2011). The role of color information on object recognition: A review and meta-analysis. Acta Psychologica 138 244-253. doi:10.1016/ j.actpsy.2011.06.010.
8. Brodeur M. Dionne-Dostie E. Montreuil T. & Lepage M. (2010). The Bank of Standardized Stimuli (BOSS) a new set of 480 normative photos of objects to be used as visual stimuli in cognitive research. PLoS ONE 5(5) e10773. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010773.
9. Brooks B. Strauss E. Sherman E. Iverson G. & Slick D. (2009). Developments in neuropsychological assessment: Refining psychometric and clinical interpretative methods. Canadian Psychology 50 196-209. doi:10.1037/a0016066.
10. Brusewitz K. & Tallberg I. (2010). The Boston Naming Test and Swedish children: Normative Data and response analysis. European Journal of Developmental Psychology 7 265-280.
11. Busch R. Frazier T. Haggerty K. & Kabu C. (2005). Utility of the Boston Naming Test in predicting ultimate side of surgery in patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia 46 1773-1779. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00300.x.
12. Capitani E. Laiacona M. Mahon B. & Caramazza A. (2003). What are the facts of semantic category-specific deficits A critical review of the clini cal evidence. Cognitive Neuropsychology 20 213-261. doi:10.1080/02643290244000266.
13. Coppens P. & Frisinger D. (2005). Category-specific naming effect in non-brain-damaged individuals. Brain and Language 94 61-71. doi:10.1016/j.bandl. 2004.11.008.
14. Crawford J. R. Garthwaite P. H. & Slick D. J. (2009). On percentile norms in neuropsychology: Proposed reporting standards and methods for quantifying the uncertainty over the percentile ranks of test scores. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 23 1173 -1195. doi:10.1080/ 13854040902795018.
15. Cree G. & McRae K. (2003). Analyzing the factors underlying the structure and computation of the meaning of chipmunk cherry chisel cheese and cello (and many other such concrete nouns). Journal of Experimental Psychology 132 163-201. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.132.2.163.
16. Damasio H. Grabowski T. Tranel D. Hichwa R. & Damasio A. (1996). A neural basis for lexical retrieval. Nature 380 499-505.
17. Damasio H. Tranel D. Grabowski T. Adolphs R. & Damasio A. (2004). Neural systems behind word and concept retrieval. Cognition 92 179-229. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition. 2002.07.001.
18. DeLeon J. Gottesman R. Kleinman J. Newhart M. Davis C. Heidler-Gary J. Hillis A. 2007 Neural regions essential for distinct cognitive processes underlying picture naming. Brain 130 1408-1422 doi:10.1093/brain/awm011.
19. Dikmen S. Heaton R. Grant I. & Temkin N. (1999). Test-retest reliability and practice effects of expanded Halstead-Reitan neu ropsychological test battery. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 5 346-356.
20. Ellis A. Kay J. & Franklin S. (1992). Anomia: Differentiating between semantic and phonological de ficits. In D. I. Margolin (Ed.) Cognitive neuropsychology in clinical practice (pp. 207-228). New York NY: Oxford University Press.
21. Ferman T. Ivnik R. & Lucas J. (1998). Boston Naming Test discontinuation rule: Rigorous versus lenient interpretations. Assessment 5 13-18.
22. Ferman T. Smith G. Boeve B. Graff-Radford N. Lucas J. Knopman D. Dickson D. (2006). Neurop sychological differentiation of dementia with Lewy bodies from normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 20 623-636.
23. Flanagan J. & Jackson S. (1997). Test-retest reliability of three aphasia tests: Performance of non-brain damaged older adults. Journal of Communication Disorders 30 33-43.
24. Franzen M. (2000). Tests of verbal function. In Reliability and validity in neuropsychological assessment (rev. ed. pp. 255-256). New York NY: Plenum Press.
25. Graves R. Bezeau S. Fogarty J. & Blair R. (2004). Boston Naming Test Short Forms: A comparison of previous forms with new item response the ory based forms. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 26 891-902. doi:1380-3395/04/2607-891.
26. Hall J. Vo H. Johnson L. Wiechmann A. & O'Bryant S. (2012). Boston Naming Test: Gender differences in older adults with and without Alzheimer 's dementia. Psychology 3 485-488. doi:10.4236/psych.2012.36068.
27. Hamberger M. (1999). Word finding or lexical knowledge: What does the Boston Naming Test Measure Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 14 130-131. [Abstract from proceedings.
28. Hamby S. Bardi C. & Wilkins J. (1997). Neuropsychological assessment of relatively intact individuals: Psychometric lessons from an HIV+ sample. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 12 545-556.
29. Hawkins K. & Bender S. (2002). Norms and the relationship of Boston Naming Test performance to vocabulary and education: A review. Aphasiology 16 1143 -1153. doi:10.1080/ 02687030244000031.
30. Hawkins K. Sledge W. Orleans J. Quinlan D. Rakfeldt J. & Hoffman R. (1993). Normative implications of the relationship between reading vocabulary and Boston Naming Test performance. Archives of C linical Neuropsychology 8 525-537.
31. Hillis A. (2007). Aphasia: Progress in the last quarter of a century. Neurology 69 200-213. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000265600.69385.6f.
32. Ivnik R. Malec J. Smith G. Tangalos E. & Petersen R. (1996). Neuropsychological tests'norms above age 55: COWAT BNT MAE Token WRAT-R Reading AMNART STROOP TMT and JLO. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 10 262-278.
33. Jeffries E. & Lambon Ralph M. (2006). Semantic impairment in stroke aphasia versus semantic dementia: A case-series comparison. Brain 129 2132-2147. doi:10.1093/brain/awll53.
34. Jeffries E. Patterson K. & Lambon Ralph M. (2008). Deficits of knowledge versus executive control in semantic cognition: Insights from cued naming. Neuropsychologia 46 649-658. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsych ologia.2007.09.007.
35. Kaplan E. Goodglass H. & Weintraub S. (1983). The Boston Naming Test. Philadelphia PA: Lea & Fibiger.
36. Killgore W. & Adams R. (1999). Prediction of B oston Naming Test performance from vocabulary scores: Preliminary guidelines for interpretation. Perceptual and Motor Skills 89 327-337.
37. LaBarge E. Balota D. Storandt M. & Smith D. (1992). An analysis of confrontation naming errors in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Neuropsychology 6 77-95.
38. Laiacona M. Barbarotto R. & Capitani E. (1993). Perceptual and associative knowledg e in category specific impairment of semantic memory: A study of two cases. Cortex 33 727-740.
39. Laine M. Martin N. 2006 Anomia: Theoretical and clinical aspects.Hove UK: Psychology Press.
40. Lambon Ralph M. Moriarty L. & Sage K. (2002). Anomia is simply a reflection of semantic and phonological impairments: Evidence from a case-series study. Ap hasiology 16 56-82. doi:10.1080/02687040143000448.
41. Lambon Ralph M. & Patterson K. (2008). Generalization and differentiation in semantic memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 11 24 61-76. doi:10.1196/ annals.1440.006.
42. Laws K. & Gale T. (2002). Category-specific naming and the 'visual'characteristics of line drawn stimuli. Cortex 38 7-21.
43. Laws K. Gale T. Frank R. & Davey N. (2002). Visual similarity is greater for line drawings of nonliving than living things: The importance of musical instruments and body parts. Brain and Cognition 48 421-424.
44. Lezak M. Howieson D. & Loring D. (2004). Verbal functions and language skills. In Neuropsychological assessment (4th ed. pp. 501-530). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
45. L ocascio J. Growdon J. & Corkin S. (1995). Cognitive test performance in detecting staging and tracking Alzheimer's disease. Archives of Neurology 52 1087-1099.
46. Lopez M. Arias G. Hun ter M. Charter R. & Scott R. (2003). Boston Naming Test: Problems with administration and scoring. Psychology Reports 92 468-472.
47. Lu L. Crosson B. Nadeua S. Heilman K. Gonzalez-Rothi L. Raymer A. Roper S. N. (2002). Category-specific naming deficits for objects and actions: Semantic attribute and grammatical role hypotheses. Neuropsychologia 40 1608-1621.
48. Martin A. (2007). The representation of object concepts in the brain. Annual Review of Psychology 58 25-45. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904. 190143.
49. McKenna P. & Warrington E. (1980). Testing for nominal dysphasia. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 43 781-788.
50. Mesulam M. Rogalski E. Wieneke C. Cobia D. Rademaker A. Thompson C. & Weintraub S. (2009). Neurology of anomia in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia. Brain 132 2553-2565. doi:10.1093/brain/awp138.
51. Miotto E. Sato J. Lucia M. Camargo C. & Scaff M. (2010). De velopment of an adapted version of the Boston Naming Test for Portuguese speakers. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 32 279-282.
52. Mitrushina M. Boone K. Razani J. & D'Elia L. (2005). Boston Namin g Test. In Handbook of normative data for neuropsychological assessment (2nd ed. pp. 173-199). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
53. Moreno-Martí nez F. & Montoro P. (2012). An ecological alternative to Snodgrass & Vanderwart: 360 high quality colour images with norms for seven psycholinguistic variables. PLoS ONE 7 (5) e37527. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037527.
54. Moreno-Martí nez F. Montoro P. & Laws K. (2011) . A set of high quality colour images with Spanish norms for seven relevant psycholinguistic variables: The Nombela naming test. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition 18 293-327.
55. Nicholas L. Brookshire R. MacLennan D. Schumacher J. & Porrazzo S. (1989). Revised administration and scoring procedures for the Boston Naming Test and norms for non-braindamaged adults. Aphasiology 3 569-580.
56. Noppeney U. Patterson K. Tyler L. Moss H. Stamatakis E. Bright P. Price C. J. (2007). Temporal lobe lesions and semantic impairment: A comparison of herpes simplex virus encephalitis and semantic de mentia. Brain 130 1138-1147. doi:10.1093/brain/awl344.
57. Patterson K. Nestor P. & Rogers T. (2007). Where do you know what you know The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8 976-988. doi:10.1038/nrn2277.
58. Pedraza O. Graff-Radford N. Smith G. Ivnik R. Willis F. Petersen R. & Lucas J. A. (2009). Differential item f unctioning of the Boston Naming Test in cognitively normal African American and Caucasian older adults. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 15 758-768. doi:10.1017/ S1355617709990361.
59. Pedraza O. Sachs B. Ferman T. Rush B. & Lucas J. (2011). Difficulty and discrimination parameters of Boston Naming Test items in a consecutive clinical series. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 26 434-444. doi:10 .1093/arclin/acr042.
60. Rabin L. Barr W. Burton L. 2005). Assessment practices of clinical neuropsychologists in the United States and Canada: A survey of INS NAN and APA Division 40 members. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 20 33-65 doi:10.1016/j.acn.2004.02.005.
61. Randolph C. Lansing A. Ivnik R. Munro Cullum C. & Hermann B. (1999). Determinants of confrontation naming performanc e. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 14 489-496.
62. Roach A. Schwartz M. Martin N. Grewal R. & Brecher A. (1996). The Philadelphia Naming Test: Scoring and rationale. Clinical Aphasiology 24 121-133.
63. Roberts P. & Doucet N. (2011). Performance of French-speaking Quebec adults on the Boston Naming Test. Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology 35 254-267.
64. Rohrer J. Knight W. Warren J. Fox N. Rossor M. & Warren J. (2008). Word-finding difficulty: A clinical analysis of the progressive aphasias. Brain 131 8-38. do i:10.1093/brain/ awm251.
65. Ross T. & Lichtenberg P. (1998). Expanded normative data for the Boston Naming Test for use with urban elderly medical patients. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 12 475-481.
66. Snodgrass J. & Vanderwart M. (1980). A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement image agreement familiarity and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 6 174-215.
67. Stern R. & White T. (2009). NAB Naming Test: Professional manual. Lutz FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
68. Strauss E. Sherman E. & Spreen O. (2006). Boston Naming Test -2 (BNT-2). In A compendium of neuropsychological tests (3rd ed. pp. 901-915). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
69. Thompson L. & Heaton R. (1989). Comparison of different versions of the Boston Naming Test. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 3 184-192.
70. Tombaugh T. & Hubley A. (1997). The 60 item Boston Naming Test: Norms for cognitively intact adults aged 25 to 88 years. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 19 922-932.
71. Walker G. & Schwartz M. (2012). Short-form Philadelphia Naming Test: Rationale and empirical evaluation. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 21 S140-S153.
72. doi:10.1044/1058-0360(2012/11-0089). Warrington E. (1997). The Graded Naming Test: A restandardization. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 7 143-146.
73. Wechsler D. (1981). Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Revised). New York NY: Psychological Corp.
74. White T. & Stern R. (2003). Neuropsychological Assessment Battery: Psychometric and technical manual. Lutz FL: Psychological Assessment Resources Inc.
75. Wilkins J. Hamby S. & Thompson K. (1996). Difficulties with Boston naming norms in individuals with below average WAIS-R Vocabulary. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 11 464. [Abstract from proceedings.
76. Yochim B. Kane K . & Mueller A. (2009). Naming Test of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery: Convergent and discriminant validity. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 24 575-583. doi:10.1093/arclin/acp053.
77. Ze c R. Burkett N. Markwell S. & Larsen D. (2007). A cross-sectional study of the effects of age education and gender on the Boston Naming Test. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 21 587-616. doi:10.1080/1 3854040701220028.
78. Zec R. Markwell S. Burkett N. & Larsen D. (2005). A longitudinal study of confrontation naming in the " normal" elderly. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 11 716-726. doi:10.1017/ S1355617705050897.
79. Zgaljardic D. Oden K. Dickson S. Plenger P. Lambert M. & Miller R. (2013). Naming Test of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery: Reliability and validity in a sample of patients with acquired brain injury . Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 28 859-865.