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Spanish boston naming test normsRicardo F. Allegri
ab, Aurora Fernandez Villavicencio
a,
Fernando E. Taraganoa, Sandra Rymberg
b, Carlos A. Mangone
c
& Denise Baumannc
a
Servicio de Neuropsicologa (SIREN) , CEMIC, Buenos
Aires,Servicios de Neurologa ,bHospital Municipal Zubizarreta ,
cHospital Municipal Santojanni , Buenos Aires, Argentina
Published online: 08 Nov 2007.
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The Clinical Neuropsychologist
1997, Vol. 11, NO. 4, pp. 41 6-420
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Spanish
Boston Nam ing Test Norm s*
Ricardo
F.
Allegri Carlos A. Ma ngone3 Aurora Fernandez Villavicencio,
Sandra Rymberg,
Fernando
E.
Taragano, and Denise Baumann3
Servic io de N europsicologia (SIREN), C EM IC, Buenos A ires,
Servicios d e Neurologia, 2Hospital Municipal
Zubizarreta, an d 3Hospital Mun icipal Santojanni, Bu enos
Aires, Argentina
ABSTRACT
The Spanish version
of
the Boston Nam ing Test (BNT) has enjoyed widespread use in many
clinical and
research studies since its introduction. How ever, there are no
normative data available for this test, and the
original English language order
of
presentation is maintained. The purpose of this study was to
collect
normative information in B uenos A ires and to evaluate age and
education effects for the BNT. We studied
200 independent healthy controls between 30 and
82
years of age. No sub jects had any history of neurolog-
ical or psychiatric disorders
or
alcohol abuse. Neuropsychological evaluation included the
Mini-Mental
State Examination, Signoret Memory Battery, Serial Frontal Test,
Phonologic and Semantic Fluency Test,
and Hamilton Depression Scale. Th e Spanish version of the
Boston Nam ing Test was administered accord-
ing to the standard protocol. We observed that naming ab ilities
remain generally intact throughout advanc-
ing age. Results on the BNT were significantly correlated with
education
@ 70 Total
Education (years)
Elementary (less than 7) 8 9 15 21 8 61
High school
8
to
12)
18 14
13 17
7
69
College (m ore than
13) 18
10
22 10 10 70
Total 44 33 50 48 24 200
The
60
stimulus figures are presented in order of
increasing difficulty. Th e Spanish version (Kap-
lan, Goodglass ,
&
Weintraub, 1986) is used fre-
quently in Argen tina.The test maintains the or-
der of presentation of the figures of the original
English language test. We believe that this
cause s som e difficulties in clinical practice an d
research with Spanish-speaking populations.
Indeed, i t cannot be assumed that the Spanish
and English language s possess equivalent word
frequencies. It is important to note that even
though no Spanish language norms exis t , the tes t
is widely used i n clinical se ttings and comm er-
cially distributed
in
Argentina.
The purpose of this study was to generate
normative information for the BN T in Buenos
Aires, and to re-order the stimulus cards to
reflect the frequency of correct responses. We
included a wide range of age and educat ion
levels.
M AT E R IAL S AND M E T HOD S
Two hundred normal, non-institutionalized, inde-
pendent subjects, between 30 and 82 years of age
were evaluated. The se were relatives or caregivers
of neurological patients from our clinical depart-
ments.
All subjects were administered th e Mini-Mental
State Examination (Folstein, Folstein,
&
McHugh,
1975), Signorets Memory Evaluation Battery
(Signoret,
&
Whiteley,
1979),
the Serial Frontal
Test (Luria, 1966), the Verbal Semantic and Pho-
nologic Fluency Test (Benton,
1968),
he Hamilton
Depression Sca le (Hamilton, 1960)and the Boston
Naming Test (BNT) (Kaplan, Goodglass ,
&
Weintraub,
1986).
The BN T was administered and
scored following the procedures recommended by
the original authors (Kaplan, Goodglass ,
&
Weintraub, 1983). Subjects with a history of neu-
rologic andl or psychiatric illness, alcoholism, or
Mini-Mental State scores (MMS) lower than 26
(Folstein, Folstein,
&
McHugh,
1975)
were ex-
cluded,
as
well as those scoring lower than two
standard deviations from the m ean in the remain-
der of the cognitive tests. Illiterates were not in-
cluded.
Data Analysis
Spearman correlation coefficient and ANOVA
were used, (BM DP
90
Statistical Software, Dixon,
1990)
Table
2.
Results of the Boston Naming Test on Normal Subjec ts Stratified
by Age and Education.
Age (years)
70
Total
M S D )
M S D )
M S D ) M S D )
M S D ) M S D )
~~
Education (years)
Elementary (less than
7) 47.7
7.0)
49.0 3.7) 49.4 4.2) 47.8 5.4) 45.8 4.0) 48.1
5.0)
High school
8
to
12) 51.1
3.8) 54.2 3.6)
52.8 2.2) 51.8
4.2) 50.7 (5.1) 52.2 3.9)
College (m ore than
13) 54.9 2.3)
55.5
1.4)
55.0
3.8) 53.0 3.4) 52.8
(1.3)
54.2 3.1)
Total 52.0 4.8) 53.4 4.0) 52.8 4.2) 50.2 4.9) 50.1 4.5) 51.7
4.7)
