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Performance of Brazilian children on phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks [PDF]
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2011 The most used verbal fluency paradigms are semantic and letter fluency tasks. Studies suggest that these paradigms access semantic memory and executive function and are sensitive to frontal lobe disturbances. There are few studies in Brazilian samples on
Helenice Charchat-Fichman +2 more
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Verbal fluency task performance in persons with moderate intellectual disability [PDF]
Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2018 Verbal fluency is an indicator of the executive functions and mental lexicon. The aim of this paper is to determine phonemic and semantic productivity in persons with moderate intellectual disability (ID). The sample consisted of 58 persons with moderate
Gligorović Milica +3 more
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Lexical-Semantic Search Under Different Covert Verbal Fluency Tasks: An fMRI Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017 Background: Verbal fluency is a measure of cognitive flexibility and word search strategies that is widely used to characterize impaired cognitive function.
Yunqing Li +8 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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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Objective: Although evidence has indicated that subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the objectification of cognitive impairment in SCD is challenging, mainly due to the lack of sensitivity in assessment ...
Joël Macoir +2 more
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Cognitive symptoms associated with antipsychotic course experience in residual schizophrenia
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2021 Urgency. The cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are recognized either as a part of a negative complex of symptomatic, where cognitive malfunction seem to be the secondary complication of emotional and motivational dysregulation; or as a separate group ...
D. Safonov
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What do verbal fluency tasks measure? Predictors of verbal fluency performance in older adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 This study examined the contributions of verbal ability and executive control to verbal fluency performance in older adults (n = 82). Verbal fluency was assessed in letter and category fluency tasks, and performance on these tasks was related to indicators of vocabulary size, lexical access speed, updating, and inhibition ability.
Zeshu eShao +6 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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Assessment of Automatic and Controlled Retrieval Using Verbal Fluency Tasks
Assessment, 2022 Category and letter verbal fluency assessment is widely used in basic and clinical research. Yet, the nature of the processes measured by such means remains a matter of debate. To delineate automatic (free-associative) versus controlled (dissociative) retrieval processes involved in verbal fluency tasks, we carried out a psychometric study combining a
Martin Marko +5 more
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Comparison of category and letter fluency tasks through automated analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionCategory and letter fluency tasks are commonly used neuropsychological tasks to evaluate lexical retrieval.MethodsThis study used validated automated methods, which allow for more expansive investigation, to analyze speech production of both ...
Carmen Gonzalez-Recober +8 more
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