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NCT Number: NCT00713232

The Construction of a Chinese Picture Naming Test and Its Preliminary Normative Data

We will construct a Chinese Picture Naming test which include 60 items with various word frequency and familiarity and is arranged by their familiarity in daily life.

Then we will collect the normative data for this test using normal subjects of various age and educational level.

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Key information

Conditions

Normality

Age range

18 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, Taiwan

About this study

In this study, we will first construct a Chinese Picture Naming Testing following the format of Boston Naming test. We will use the original 60 items from BNT and also choose another 100 items of objects with various frequency using the word frequency data from the Linguistic Corpus of the Academia Sinica. Colored pictures will be constructed accordingly. University students will be recruited to name the pictures and to judge the familiarity and image agreement for these pictures. Then, we will choose 60 pictures of according to the principles of 1. high image agreement 2. high naming agreement 3. including items of various familiarity and word frequency 4. double or triple phoneme words 5. including the original BNT items as possible. The 60 pictures will be arranged by their familiarity to construct the Chinese Picture Naming Test.

Then, we will recruit normal subjects of various age group and educational level to to the Naming test and to construct the preliminary norm.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • living in Taiwan for more than 5 years fluent in Chinese

Exclusion criteria

  • previous neurological, psychiatric or speech language disorders

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. naming accuracy

    Time frame: 10 minutes

Secondary outcomes

  1. naming agreement

    Time frame: 10 min

  2. image agreement

    Time frame: 10 min

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2007
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2007
First posted
Jul 11, 2008
Registry last updated
Jul 11, 2008

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