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On Which Abilities Are Category Fluency and Letter Fluency Grounded A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of 53 Alzheimer's Dementia Patients

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2013
Background/Aims: In Alzheimer's dementia (AD), letter fluency is less impaired than category fluency. To check whether category fluency and letter fluency depend differently on semantics and attention, 53 mild AD patients were given animal and letter ...
Ilaria Bizzozero, Stefania Scotti, Francesca Clerici, Simone Pomati, Marcella Laiacona, Erminio Capitani   +5 more
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[Verbal fluency tests--application in neuropsychological assessment].

Psychiatria polska, 2013
Verbal fluency tests (VFT) have established position in methodology of cognitive functions research. They are used in neuropsychological assessment of neurological and psychiatric diseases. This article's aim is to present current knowledge of the VFT both to clinicians and researchers.
Małgorzata, Piskunowicz, Maciej, Bieliński, Adam, Zgliński, Alina, Borkowska   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Icelandic Norms for Verbal Fluency Tests

, 2013
The Verbal Fluency Test (VFT) is one of the most used instruments in measuring cognitive functioning. In this study, two VFT (a letter fluency test and a category fluency test) were administrated to a sample of 405 individuals.
Dorothea Pálsdóttir 1987-
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Reduced temporal activation during a verbal fluency test in clinical high risk of psychosis: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based study. [PDF]

Gen Psychiatr, 2022
Wei Y, Tang X, Zhang T, Su W, Xu L, Cui H, Qian Z, Zhang T, Wang J.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relationships of Curiosity to Perceptual and Verbal Fluency in Young Children

, 1979
The relations of curiosity measured separately by teachers' rating and a revised object-curiosity task to verbal fluency and originality, measured by a word fluency test, and to perceptual fluency, obtained from the “Visual Closure” test of the Illinois
Kayoko Inagaki
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Effects of HIV on executive function and verbal fluency in Cameroon [PDF]

, 2018
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) are frequently associated with impaired executive function and verbal fluency. Given limited knowledge concerning HAND in Sub-Saharan-Africa and lack of Cameroonian adult neuropsychological (NP) test norms ...
Mbanya, Dora, Njamnshi, Dora M, Fonsah, Julius Y, Umlauf, Anya, Doh, Roland F, Franklin, Donald, Kanmogne, Georgette D, Kengne, Anne M, Kenmogne, Léopoldine, Njamnshi, Alfred K, Tagny, Claude T, Heaton, Robert K, Nchindap, Emilienne, Tang, Bin   +13 more
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Validity study of Animal-City Alternating Form Fluency Test in the identification of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2015
Objective To identify the sensitivity and specificity of Animal-City Alternating Form Fluency Test (ACFT) differentiating mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) from normal controls.
Yun-bo SHI, Qi-hao GUO, Huan YU, Qian-hua ZHAO, Zhen HONG   +4 more
doaj  

Immediate treatment effects of high-dose methotrexate and cranial irradiation on neuropsychological functions of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia at a regional cancer center

Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, 2014
Context: Overall cure rates for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have improved; however, the neuropsychological sequelae of ALL treatment have not been adequately documented in India.
Sundaramoorthy Chidambaram, Arun Seshachalam, Vidhubala Elangovan, Rejiv Rajendranath   +3 more
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