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Duration of oral contraceptive use relates to cognitive performance and brain activation in current and past users

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2022
Previous studies indicate effects of oral contraceptive (OC) use on spatial and verbal cognition. However, a better understanding of the OC effects is still needed, including the differential effects of androgenic or anti-androgenic OC use and whether ...
Isabel Asar Noachtar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Verbal Fluency Tasks: Effects of Age, Gender, and Education

open access: yesFolia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2016
<b><i>Objectives:</i></b> This study presents data for semantic fluency, phonemic fluency, action fluency, and alternate fluency. The aim is to provide normative data by age, gender, and education for European Portuguese in each fluency category.
Nogueira, Dália   +2 more
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Emotional Verbal Fluency: A New Task on Emotion and Executive Function Interaction

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2013
The present study introduces “Emotional Verbal Fluency” as a novel (partially computerized) task, which is aimed to investigate the interaction between emotionally loaded words and executive functions.
Sarah Oetken   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Verbal Fluency Task Performance of Indonesian Bilinguals

open access: yesIndonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|, 2020
Verbal fluency (VF) task is a tool that has been utilized in bilingual studies to measure executive performance of bilingual individuals. While many of the previous studies compared bilingual speakers’ performance in VF to their monolingual counterparts, this descriptive study compares exclusively the cross-linguistic VF performance of Indonesian ...
Aziez, Feisal   +3 more
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10-Hz tACS over the prefrontal cortex improves phonemic fluency in healthy individuals

open access: yesScientific 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
doaj   +1 more source

Trait Anxiety Modulates Brain Activity during Performance of Verbal Fluency Tasks [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016
Trait anxiety is thought to be associated with pathological anxiety, and a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. The present study examines the brain mechanisms associated with trait anxiety during the performing of verbal fluency tasks. The aim is to show how trait anxiety modulates executive functions as measured by verbal fluency, and to explore ...
Gawda, Barbara, Szepietowska, Ewa
openaire   +3 more sources

The Relationship Between Cognitive Abilities and the Decision-Making Process: The Moderating Role of Self-Relevance

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
This study investigated the relationship between cognitive abilities and age differences in information search and the moderating role of task self-relevance by measuring the decision-making processes of participants in both high and low self-relevance ...
Menghan Jin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pausas em uma tarefa de tradução e percepção do nível de Dificuldade da Tarefa de Tradução

open access: yesDomínios de Lingu@gem, 2019
A translation task from English into Spanish (Castilian) was carried out by 5 graduate students and 1 undergraduate student highly proficient in English and Spanish.
James Musselman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Executive functioning during verbal fluency tasks in bilinguals: A systematic review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
AbstractBackgroundBilingualism is widespread and being bilingual is more common than being monolingual. The lifelong practice bilinguals receive from managing two languages seems to lead to a cognitive benefit. Conversely, bilingualism seems to affect language ability negatively due to less use of each known language.AimsThis systematic review aims to ...
Jasmine Giovannoli   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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