Functional Connectivity and Compensation of Phonemic Fluency in Aging [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021 Neural compensatory mechanisms associated with broad cognitive abilities have been studied. However, those associated with specific cognitive subdomains (e.g., verbal fluency) remain to be investigated in healthy aging.
Rosaleena Mohanty +10 more
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Executive Processes Underpin the Bilingual Advantage on Phonemic Fluency: Evidence From Analyses of Switching and Clustering [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Bilinguals often show a disadvantage in lexical access on verbal fluency tasks wherein the criteria require the production of words from semantic categories.
John E. Marsh +5 more
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10-Hz tACS over the prefrontal cortex improves phonemic fluency in healthy individuals [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Verbal fluency is an important indicator of human verbal ability. Methods to improve fluency is an interesting issue necessitating investigation. To do this, the current study required participants to randomly receive transcranial alternating current ...
Ya Sun +3 more
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Phonemic fluency in post-ICU patients after severe COVID-19 infection: The role of cognitive reserve [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Cognitive function may be impaired in COVID-19 patients, especially in executive functions such as phonemic fluency. Among risk factors, inflammation during hospitalization is related with worse cognitive performance in the long term.
X. Segú +6 more
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Segregated circuits for phonemic and semantic fluency: A novel patient-tailored disconnection study
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 Phonemic and semantic fluency are neuropsychological tests widely used to assess patients’ language and executive abilities and are highly sensitive tests in detecting language deficits in glioma patients. However, the networks that are involved in these
Luca Zigiotto +7 more
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The effect of bilingualism on the processing of clustering and switching in verbal fluency tasks [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2020 Background: This study examined the effect of bilingualism on the processing of clustering and switching in verbal fluency tasks in Farsi-Balochi bilinguals.
Najme Mardani +4 more
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Brain Sciences, 2023 Individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) struggle with impaired verbal fluency as an executive function. The left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and the right inferior frontal gurus (IFG), which show reduced ...
Vahid Nejati, Reza Estaji, Zahra Helisaz
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Verbal, Figural, and Arithmetic Fluency of Children with Cochlear Implants
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Cochlear implantation gives children with prelingual severe hearing loss and deafness the opportunity to develop their hearing abilities, speech, language, cognitive abilities and academic skills with adequate rehabilitation.
Renata Skrbic +3 more
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Alternate fluency in Parkinson's disease: A machine learning analysis.
PLoS ONE, 2022 ObjectiveThe aim of the present study was to investigate whether patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) had changes in their level of performance in extra-dimensional shifting by implementing a novel analysis method, utilizing the new alternate phonemic ...
Roberta Ferrucci +12 more
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Verbal fluency in children with intellectual disability: Influence of basic executive components [PDF]
Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2014 Phonemic and semantic fluency tasks are frequently used to differentiate executive control roles and the integrity of lexical-semantic representation. The main goal of this study is to determine the influence of basic executive components on phonemic and
Gligorović Milica, Buha Nataša
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