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Boston Naming Test

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

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Boston Naming Test-2 (BNT-2)

Authors: Kaplan, Edith, Goodglass, Harold, Weintraub, Sandra

Second edition 2001

Publisher: Pro-Ed, 8700 Shoal Creek Blvd, Austin, TX 78757–6897

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Also available as part of the revised BDAE-2 (Goodglass et al., 2000) from Pro-Ed.

The Boston Naming Test (BNT), consisting of 60 black and white line drawings of objects, is a measure of confrontation naming that takes into account the finding that patients with dysnomia often have greater difficulties with the naming of low frequency objects. Thus, instead of a simple category of anomia, naming difficulties may be rank ordered along a continuum. Items on the BNT are ordered according to their ability to be named, which is thought to be correlated with their frequency. This type of picture-naming vocabulary test is useful in the examination of children with learning disabilities and the evaluation of adults with brain injury or dysfunction. When used in conjunction...

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  1. Otolaryngology Clinic, Speech Division, Naval Medical Center, 34520 Bob Wilson Drive, 92134-2200, San Diego, CA, USA

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

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Roth, C. (2011). Boston Naming Test. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_869

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