Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology Advance Access originally published online on August 1, 2009
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2009 24(4):343-354; doi:10.1093/arclin/acp039
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Spanish Multicenter Normative Studies (NEURONORMA Project): Norms for Boston Naming Test and Token Test


a Section of Behavioral Neurology and Dementias, Hospital del Mar, Institut Municipal d'Assistència Sanitària, Barcelona, Spain
b Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain
c Service of Neurology, Hospital Mútua de Terrassa, Terrassa, Spain
d Service of Neurology, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
e Service of Neurology, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
f Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology Department, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
g Service of Neurology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
h Service of Neurology, Hospital Virgen Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
i Service of Neurology, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain
j Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
k Service of Neurology, Hospital de Cruces, Bilbao, Spain
l European Biometrics Institute, Barcelona, Spain
m Service of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
* Corresponding author at: Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Biomedical Research Park Building, Carrer Dr Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. Tel.: +34-933160765; fax: +34-933160723. E-mail address: jpcasanova{at}imas.imim.es (J. Peña-Casanova).
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As part of the Spanish Multicenter Normative Studies (NEURONORMA project), we provide age- and education-adjusted norms for the Boston naming test and Token test. The sample consists of 340 and 348 participants, respectively, who are cognitively normal, community-dwelling, and ranging in age from 50 to 94 years. Tables are provided to convert raw scores to age-adjusted scaled scores. These were further converted into education-adjusted scaled scores by applying regression-based adjustments. Age and education affected the score of the both tests, but sex was found to be unrelated to naming and verbal comprehension efficiency. Our norms should provide clinically useful data for evaluating elderly Spaniards. The normative data presented here were obtained from the same study sample as all the other NEURONORMA norms and the same statistical procedures for data analyses were applied. These co-normed data allow clinicians to compare scores from one test with all tests.
Keywords Language tests; Vocabulary tests; Verbal comprehension; Age factors; Demography; Educational status; Reference values
Accepted: June 29, 2009
The members of the NEURONORMA.ES Study Team are listed in the Appendix.
Deceased.