Performance difference in verbal fluency in bilingual and monolingual speakers [PDF]
Research has shown that bilinguals can perform similarly, better or poorly on verbal fluency task compared to monolinguals. Verbal fluency data for semantic (animals, fruits and vegetables, and clothing) and letter fluency (F, A, S) were collected from ...
Marinis, Theo +6 more
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Lexical organization in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task [PDF]
We adapted the semantic fluency task into British Sign Language (BSL). In Study 1, we present data from twenty-two deaf signers aged four to fifteen. We show that the same ‘cognitive signatures’ that characterize this task in spoken languages are also ...
Marshall, C. R. +9 more
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A systematic review of normative data for verbal fluency test in different languages
Verbal fluency tests are easy and quick to use in neuropsychological assessments, so they have been counted among the most classical tools in this context. To date, several normative data for verbal fluency tests have been provided in different languages
Del Río Grande, David Pedro +4 more
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10-Hz tACS over the prefrontal cortex improves phonemic fluency in healthy individuals
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
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Catch that word: interactivity, serendipity and verbal fluency in a word production task [PDF]
AbstractProblem solving outside of the cognitive psychologist’s lab unfolds in an environment rich with bodily gesture and material artefacts. We examine this meshwork of internal mental resources, embodied actions and environmental affordances through the lens of a word production task with letter tiles. Forty participants took part in the study which
Wendy Ross +1 more
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Methodological Criteria for Scoring Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency Tasks [PDF]
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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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
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Pausas em uma tarefa de tradução e percepção do nível de Dificuldade da Tarefa de Tradução
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
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Executive functions in insight versus non-insight problem solving: An individual differences approach [PDF]
This is the author's accepted manuscript (with the working title "Executive processes and working memory in solving insight and non-insight problems"). The final published article is available from the link below.
Gilhooly, KJ +4 more
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Neural correlates of executive function and working memory in the 'at risk mental state' [PDF]
Background and Aims: People with ‘prodromal’ symptoms have a very high risk of developing psychosis. We used functional MRI to examine the neurocognitive basis of this vulnerability.
Tabraham, Paul +11 more
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