Boston Naming Test: Normative data for older Australians

Summary A number of issues regarding the use of the BNTin elderly populations have been addressed andinvestigated within this study. Firstly, normativedata for two education groups and two age bandshave been provided based on a large group of ran-domly selected Australians, filling a gap in thecurrent BNT literature. In addition to thesenorms, frequencies of error types are reporteddescribing the most common errors made in thisgroup of non-demented individuals. Acknowledgements This research was supported in part by a grantfrom the National Health and Medical ResearchCouncil of Australia and an Infrastructure StreamC grant from the Department of Health of NewSouth Wales, Australia. We would like to thankJessica Carroll and Enid Sawley for their partici-pation in data collection. References Albert, M.S., Heller, H.S., & Milberg, W. (1988).Changes in naming ability with age. Psychologyand Aging, 3(2), 173–178.Allegri, R.F., Mangone, C.A., Villavicencio, A.F.,Rymberg, S., Taragano, F.E., & Baumann, D.(1997). Spanish Boston Naming Test norms.