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Naming ability across the adult life span |
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| Authors: | Rhoda Au Philip Joung Marjorie Nicholas Loraine K. Obler Robin Kass Martin L. Albert |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Neurology , Boston University School of Medicine ,;2. Department of Neurology , Boston University School of Medicine ,;3. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Boston;4. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Boston;5. City University of New York , |
| Abstract: | Abstract 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 performance showed a significant decline over time that was greatest for the oldest subjects. These results confirm that decline in naming is a real phenomenon in normal aging that cannot be attributable primarily to cohort effects. We conclude that the changes in naming ability across the life span reflect more than simply a breakdown in lexical retrieval and that perceptual and semantic processing may be implicated. |
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