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The Use of Executive Fluency Tasks to Detect Cognitive Impairment in Individuals with Subjective Cognitive Decline

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, Pascale Tremblay, Carol Hudon   +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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Decreased prefrontal activation during verbal fluency task after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment for depression in Alzheimer’s disease: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study [PDF]

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Xiangping Wu, Dongsheng Zhou, Chengying Zheng   +2 more
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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, Esther eJanse, Esther eJanse, Esther eJanse, Karina eVisser, Antje eMeyer, Antje eMeyer   +6 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, Naomi Nevler, Sanjana Shellikeri, Katheryn A. Q. Cousins, Emma Rhodes, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman, David Irwin, Sunghye Cho   +8 more
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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, Drahomír Michalko, Jozef Dragašek, Zuzana Vančová, Dominika Jarčušková, Igor Riečanský   +5 more
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Duration of oral contraceptive use relates to cognitive performance and brain activation in current and past users

Frontiers 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, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Belinda Pletzer   +2 more
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Scientific research on verbal fluency tests: a bibliometric analysis

, 2022
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, Del Río Grande, David Pedro, Fernández González, Santiago, Villalobos Tornero, María Dolores, Pacios García, Javier, Povedano Montero, Francisco Javier   +5 more
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Similarity Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions with Verbal Fluency Tasks [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), 2018
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, Rodrigo Wilkens, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio   +3 more
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Verbal Fluency Tasks: Effects of Age, Gender, and Education

Folia 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, Reis, Elizabeth, Vieira, Ana Isabel   +2 more
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