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Normative data for healthy elderly on the phonemic verbal fluency task - FAS [PDF]
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2009 Abstract Phonemic verbal fluency tests assess the production of words beginning with specific letters. Of these letters, the most frequently used are F, A and S. It is a sensitive test for assessing frontal lobe functions. Objective: To provide normative data for the elderly Brazilian population on the FAS test and to investigate the effects of age ...
Machado, Thais Helena +9 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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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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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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Mechanisms of age-related decline in memory search across the adult life span [PDF]
, 2013 Three alternative mechanisms for age-related decline in memory search have been proposed, which result from either reduced processing speed (global slowing hypothesis), overpersistence on categories (cluster-switching hypothesis), or the inability to ...
Hills, T. +8 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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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative ‘tauopathy’ with predominating pathology in the basal ganglia and midbrain. Caudal tau spread frequently implicates the cerebellum; however, the pattern of atrophy remains equivocal.
Chloe Spiegel +8 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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Intact lexicon running slowly--prolonged response latencies in patients with subthalamic DBS and verbal fluency deficits. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Verbal Fluency is reduced in patients with Parkinson's disease, particularly if treated with deep brain stimulation. This deficit could arise from general factors, such as reduced working speed or from dysfunctions in specific lexical domains.
Felicitas Ehlen +5 more
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