Lexical properties of the Boston Naming Test stimuli: age differences in word naming and lexical decision latency.
Two experiments examined the lexical properties of the word representations of the Boston Naming Test (BNT; Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983) stimuli and whether these properties differentially influenced performance of young and older adults in a speeded word naming task and a lexical decision task. The lexical properties of the word representations examined were familiarity, number of letters, frequency of the word's occurrence, and number of syllables. The results of Experiment 1 indicated that the process of lexical access was similar in young and older adults and provided the first examination of lexical properties of the BNT stimuli in a speeded naming situation. The purpose of Experiment 2 was to reexamine the questions raised in Experiment 1 using a lexical decision task. The results of the analysis in Experiment 2 indicated that age was a significant predictor of performance on the lexical decision task. None of the other predictors contributed significantly to the regression equation.
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Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014825:Vocabulary; D014888:Wechsler Scales