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Executive Functioning in Children With Developmental Dyslexia [PDF]
, 2014 The term "executive function" has been used to describe several higher-order cognitive processes. This study examined the processing speed, shifting, planning, and verbal fluency of a sample of 50 Portuguese children with developmental dyslexia (DD) and ...
Moura, Octávio +2 more
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Clustering and Switching Strategies in Verbal Fluency Tasks: Comparison between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Healthy Controls [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2019 Background: Recent studies have demonstrated that ALS patients suffer from cognitive and language impairments. One of the most striking and consistent cognitive dysfunctions in these patients is verbal fluency deficits.
Najme Mardani +3 more
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Semantic and Categorical Verbal Fluency: An Indicator of Progression of Cognitive Decline with Aging
Annals of Indian PsychiatryBackground: Changes in cognitive functioning with the progression of age have been suggested as indicator of potential degenerative disorders in older adults.
Susmita Halder +2 more
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Worsening of Verbal Fluency After Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease: A Focused Review
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2017 Worsening of verbal fluency after treatment with deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease patients is one of the most often reported cognitive adverse effect. The underlying mechanisms of this decline are not well understood.
Andreas Højlund +3 more
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Prediction of Chinese Reading Fluency by Verbal and Non-verbal Visual Attention Span Measures
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This study explored (1) the relationship between verbal and non-verbal visual attention span measures and (2) the relationship between visual attention span and reading fluency in traditional Chinese, among 101 university students in Hong Kong.
Kevin Shing-Chi Chan, Pui-Sze Yeung
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel +5 more
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2011 A fluência verbal é um marcador das funções executivas, envolvendo a capacidade de busca e recuperação de dados, habilidades de organização, autorregulação e memória operacional.
Thaís Bento Lima da Silva +3 more
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Brain Stimulation, 2021 Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder that results in movement-related dysfunction and has variable cognitive impairment.
Darrin J. Lee +19 more
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Fluência verbal semântica e fonológica: estudo comparativo em deficientes auditivos e ouvintes [PDF]
, 2014 PURPOSE:To compare the performance of hearing-impaired and normal-hearing people on phonologic and semantic verbal fluency tests. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 48 hearing-impaired adults and 42 individuals (control group) with no ...
Chiari, Brasilia Maria +4 more
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1554 – Verbal Fluencies Associated Factors In Elderly [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2013 Verbal fluency (VF) involves complex processes and has been a good marker of cognitive decline. However, the literature is inconsistent concerning to witch factors are associated with VF.Our aims are to analyze the relationship between both phonemic verbal fluency (PVF) and semantic verbal fluency (SVF) and sociodemographic and psychopathological ...
Caldas, Luisa +15 more
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