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Verbal Fluency Performance in Patients with Non-demented Parkinson's Disease.
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 2013 While Parkinson's disease (PD) has traditionally been defined by motor symptoms, many researches have indicated that mild cognitive impairment is common in non-demented PD patients.
Hooshang Dadgar +2 more
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Fully Automatic Speech-Based Analysis of the Semantic Verbal Fluency Task [PDF]
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 2018 <b><i>Background:</i></b> Semantic verbal fluency (SVF) tests are routinely used in screening for mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In this task, participants name as many items as possible of a semantic category under a time constraint.
König, Alexandra +6 more
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2013 Verbal fluency tasks are widely used in (clinical) neuropsychology to evaluate components of executive functioning and lexical-semantic processing (linguistic and semantic memory).
André Luiz Moraes +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Objectives This study aimed to characterize verbal fluency performance in monolinguals and bilinguals using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA).
Vanessa Taler, Brendan Johns
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Verbal ability in postmenopausal women in relation to age, cognitive and reproductive factors
Acta Psychologica, 2023 Word-finding difficulties have been associated with age and, in women, lowered sex hormone levels following menopause. However, there is limited understanding of the ways that specific aspects of word-finding are shaped by women's age, reproductive ...
Ramya Maitreyee +2 more
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Action verbal fluency in Parkinson’s patients
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2015 We compared the performance of 31 non-demented Parkinson´s disease (PD) patients to 61 healthy controls in an action verbal fluency task. Semantic and phonemic fluencies, cognitive impairment and behavioural dysfunction were also assessed.
Inês Tello Rodrigues +4 more
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Neural Plasticity, 2017 Previous work has shown that older adults who evidence increased right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) activity during language tasks show decreased sematic verbal fluency performance. The current study sought to evaluate if an aerobic exercise intervention
Joe Nocera +3 more
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Methodological Criteria for Scoring Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency Tasks [PDF]
Psico-USF, 2016 Abstract The objective of this study was to describe an adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the methodological criteria for analysis of clustering and switching in semantic verbal fluency (SVF) and phonemic verbal fluency (PVF) tasks. The adaptation process consisted of six steps, including the selection of the clustering and switching variables ...
Becker, Natália +1 more
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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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Phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks: normative data for elderly Brazilians
Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2015 This study aims to investigate the influence of sociodemographic characteristics on the performance of older people on two tasks of verbal fluency and provide normative data for a Brazilian population of healthy elderly individuals with different ...
Cristiane Silva Esteves +7 more
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