title: Applicability of the "An Object and Action Naming Battery" in Brazilian Portuguese.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To verify the performance of a sample of Brazilian subjects in the "An Object and Action Naming Battery" (OANB), according to schooling; and to describe the main error types in nouns and verbs naming.
  
  
  METHODS
  The OANB was applied in 100 healthy subjects, divided in two groups (GI: four to eight years of schooling; and GII: above nine years).
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were correct answers for 97.6% for nouns and 98.0% for verbs. There were statistically significant differences between the groups in the number of correct answers for nouns and verbs (p<0.0001) and in the proportion of semantic errors for verbs (p=0.0160), with less educated subjects performing poorer than higher educated ones.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The OANB may be used in adult Brazilian Portuguese native speakers. The group with higher education had higher scores; both groups had a higher proportion of "semantic errors" for verbs and nouns.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Department of Neurology of the School of Medicine, São PauloSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luisa Carmen
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Spezzano
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, School of Medicine, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy, Department of Physical, São PauloSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Letícia Lessa
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Mansur
authors.forename: Márcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radanovic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary; D055815:Young Adult