What do verbal fluency tasks measure? Predictors of verbal fluency performance in older adults [PDF]
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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The role of task complexity, modality and aptitude in narrative task performance. [PDF]
The study reported in this paper investigated the relationship between components of aptitude and the fluency, accuracy, syntactic complexity and lexical variety of performance in two types of written and spoken narrative tasks.
Kormos, Judit, Trebits, Anna
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Comparison of category and letter fluency tasks through automated analysis
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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Intact fluency in autism? A comprehensive approach of verbal fluency task including word imageability and concreteness. [PDF]
AbstractVerbal fluency is a cognitive function reflecting executive functions and the ability to retrieve the appropriate information from memory quickly. Previous studies reported conflicting results—impaired and intact verbal fluency—in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Tóth O +7 more
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Assessment of Automatic and Controlled Retrieval Using Verbal Fluency Tasks
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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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
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Scientific research on verbal fluency tests: a bibliometric analysis
Verbal fluency tests are easy and quick to use in neuropsychological assessments. The aim of this study is to explore their relevance through a bibliometric analysis. We performed a search in the Web of Science, involving documents published between 1960
López-Muñoz, Francisco +5 more
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Similarity Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions with Verbal Fluency Tasks [PDF]
Les tests de fluidité sémantique verbale ont été utilisés dans la détection de certaines conditions cliniques, comme Dementia.En particulier, étant donné une séquence de mots sémantiquement liés, un grand nombre de commutations d'une classe sémantique à une autre a été lié aux conditions cliniques.Dans ce travail, nous étudions trois mesures de ...
Felipe Paula +3 more
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Affective modulation of verbal fluency : Effect of anxiety and happiness. [PDF]
Previous research (Ryan & Deci, 2001) argued that well being consisted of subjective well-being and Eudaimonic well being. For this subjective well-being, Iwasaki and Kotozaki (2006) explored more objective measure of the subjective well being. They used
宮澤, 志保 +5 more
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Verbal Fluency Tasks: Effects of Age, Gender, and Education
<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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