Revised administration and scoring procedures for the Boston Naming test and norms for non-brain-damaged adults

Abstract

Abstract Standard administration, response coding and scoring procedures were developed for the 60-item Boston Naming Test (BNT). Standard prompts to be given following certain types of incorrect responses were also developed. The BNT was administered to 60 non-brain-damaged adults using these standard procedures. Our results show that examiners can reliably carry out the revised test procedures reported in this paper. Our results also show that two response categories (Related Name and Don't Know) accounted for nearly 80% of incorrect responses. Several BNT test pictures frequently elicited a consistent name other than the one specified in the test. Prompting for an additional response following Related Name and Multiple Attempts responses frequently elicited the correct BNT name. Prompts following other types of error responses usually did not elicit the correct name. Neither the age nor education of our nonbrain-damaged subjects was strongly related to their total BNT score.