Semantic, phonologic, and verb fluency in Huntington's disease [PDF]
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2007 Abstract Verbal fluency tasks have been identified as important indicators of executive functioning impairment in patients with frontal lobe dysfunction. Although the usual evaluation of this ability considers phonologic and semantic criteria, there is some evidence that fluency of verbs would be more sensitive in disclosing frontostriatal ...
Azambuja, Mariana Jardim +4 more
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Retrieval from memory: Vulnerable or inviolable? [PDF]
, 2012 We show that retrieval from semantic memory is vulnerable even to the mere presence of speech. Irrelevant speech impairs semantic fluency—namely, lexical retrieval cued by a semantic category name—but only if it is meaningful (forward speech compared to ...
Hughes, Robert W. +2 more
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Semantic Fluency and Phonemic Fluency: Regression-based Norms for the Portuguese Population [PDF]
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2013 The main goal of this study was to produce adjusted normative data for the Portuguese population on two verbal fluency measures: the semantic fluency test (animals category) and the phonemic fluency test (letters M, R, and P). The study included 950 community-dwelling individuals (624 women and 326 men) aged between 18 and 98 (mean = 57.8, SD = 19.0 ...
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A coordinate-based ALE functional MRI meta-analysis of brain activation during verbal fluency tasks in healthy control subjects [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The processing of verbal fluency tasks relies on the coordinated activity of a number of brain areas, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the left hemisphere.
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Verbal and non-verbal fluency in adults with developmental dyslexia: Phonological processing or executive control problems? [PDF]
, 2017 The executive function of fluency describes the ability to generate items according to specific rules. Production of words beginning with a certain letter (phonemic fluency) is impaired in dyslexia, whilst generation of words belonging to a certain ...
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Lexical organization in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task [PDF]
, 2013 We adapted the semantic fluency task into British Sign Language (BSL). In Study 1, we present data from twenty-two deaf signers aged four to fifteen. We show that the same ‘cognitive signatures’ that characterize this task in spoken languages are also ...
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Gender Differences in Semantic Fluency Patterns in Children [PDF]
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2016 Previous literature in cognitive psychology has provided data involving differences in language processing between men and women. It has been found that women are usually more proficient with certain semantic categories such as fruit, vegetables and furniture. Men are reported to be better at other categories semantic, e.g. tools and transport.
Soriano, Federico Gonzalo +4 more
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Shifting gear in the study of the bilingual advantage : language switching examined as a possible moderator [PDF]
, 2019 The bilingual advantage is a heavily debated topic in research on bilingualism. The current study further investigated one specific aspect of bilingualism proposed to be a determining factor for the bilingual advantage, namely language switching ...
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Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages [PDF]
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009 This cross-linguistic study investigated Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) performance in 30 American English-speaking and 30 Finnish-speaking healthy elderly adults with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Despite the different backgrounds of the participant groups, remarkable similarities were found between the groups in the overall SVF ...
Seija, Pekkala +5 more
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The effect of Parkinson’s disease subgroups on verbal and nonverbal fluency [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Parkinson’s disease (PD) leads to deficits in executive function, including verbal and nonverbal fluency, as a result of compromised frontostriatal circuits.
Cronin-Golomb, Alice +4 more
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