verbal fluency
Computerized Analysis of a Verbal Fluency Test
... We present a system for automated pho- netic clustering analysis of cognitive tests of phonemic verbal fluency, on which one must name words starting with a specific letter (e.g., ‘F’) for one minute. Test ...
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Automatic Data Driven Approaches for Evaluating the Phonemic Verbal Fluency Task with Healthy Adults
... could be due to the lower quality of clusters pro- duced by the sem metric, as determined by the silhouette coefficient, however the overall score is within a reasonable range. Another consideration is that the phonemic ...
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Lexical Access in Persian Normal Speakers: Picture Naming, Verbal Fluency and Spontaneous Speech
... in verbal fluency, picture naming and analysis of connected speech especially for research and clinical use, since it was a ...and verbal fluency tasks are affected by age and education and ...
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Preliminary Normative Data of Persian Phonemic and Semantic Verbal Fluency Test
... According to the results of this study, there was no significant difference between age groups in their verbal fluency. These results conform to some of the previous studies that reported non-significant ...
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Practical issues in developing semantic frameworks for the analysis of verbal fluency data: A Norwegian data case study
... Background: Verbal fluency tasks, which re- quire producing as many words in response to a cue in a fixed time, are widely used within clinical neuropsychology and in neuropsycho- logical ...category ...
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Improvement of verbal fluency in patients with diffuse brain injury over time
... Background: Diffuse axonal injury (DAI), a common cause of neurological sequelae in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), is considered one of the most prevalent forms of primary neuronal injury in patients with ...
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Rapid improvement in verbal fluency and aphasia following perispinal etanercept in Alzheimer's disease
... in verbal fluency, learning, and memory over 6 months during maintenance treatment with perispinal etanercept in a 12 subject pilot study, as reflected by T-score change from baseline to 6 ...
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Using Neural Word Embeddings in the Analysis of the Clinical Semantic Verbal Fluency Task
... Verbal fluency is amongst the most widely adapted neuropsychological standard tests and is routinely applied in the asessment of neurocognitive ...category fluency or semantic verbal ...
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Influence of Cognitive Aging on Intraindividual Variability and Time of Day Effects in Verbal Fluency Performance
... although verbal fluency has been shown to involve the frontal lobes, the task does not in fact place a high enough demand on executive ...letter fluency tasks are not novel enough, because ...
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Temporal Analysis of the Semantic Verbal Fluency Task in Persons with Subjective and Mild Cognitive Impairment
... Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) task is a classical neuropsychological assessment where persons are asked to produce words belonging to a semantic category ...
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Pattern of neural responses to verbal fluency shows diagnostic specificity for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
... cult verbal fluency, thresholded using the ANOVA test for group ...of verbal fluency as a diagnostic bio- marker, and this proof-of-principle goal benefits from optimising the overall ...
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Less words, more words: psychometric schizotypy and verbal fluency
... in verbal production, suggesting the involvement of different underlying mechanisms in psychotic ...of verbal production would be also differentially associated with negative and positive symptoms of ...
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Reduced dorsolateral prefrontal cortical hemodynamic response in adult obsessive-compulsive disorder as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy during the verbal fluency task
... 60-second verbal fluency task was calculated and the pre-task baseline was calculated using the mean of the last 10 seconds of the 30-second pre-task ...
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Executive functioning and verbal fluency in children with language difficulties
... Nevertheless, verbal fluency tasks tap highly relevant and generalizable classroom skills/abilities, as everyday learning activities require search, access, and retrieval of organised stored information ...
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Abnormal prefrontal brain activation during a verbal fluency task in bipolar disorder patients with psychotic symptoms using multichannel NIRS
... Patients and methods: Thirty-one patients without psychotic symptoms and 29 patients with psychotic symptoms diagnosed with bipolar I disorder with a current depressive episode were included in the present study. The ...
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Verbal and non-verbal fluency in adults with developmental dyslexia: Phonological processing or executive control problems?
... of fluency describes the ability to generate items according to specific ...(phonemic fluency) is impaired in dyslexia, whilst generation of words belonging to a certain semantic category (semantic ...
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Reduced prefrontal activation during verbal fluency task in chronic insomnia disorder: a multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy study
... Patients and methods: Twenty-four CID patients and twenty-five healthy controls matched for age, right-hand dominance, educational level, and gender were examined during verbal fluency tasks (VFT) using ...
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Semantic and Phonemic Verbal Fluency Performance in Patients with General Anxiety Disorders and Allostatic Load under Alprazolam Treatment
... non-verbal fluency performance have been previously studied in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [9] and in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder [10] and also in subjects with ...
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Similarity Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions with Verbal Fluency Tasks
... Semantic Verbal Fluency tests have been used in the detection of certain clinical conditions, like Dementia. In particular, given a sequence of semantically related words, a large num- ber of switches from ...
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Post-stroke executive dysfunction and verbal fluency negatively correlated to IL8
... The Trail Making Test (TMT) was used for assess- ment of executive functions, the original trail making test was a paper a pencil test with two parts. In part A, the individual was asked to draw lines between 25 con- ...
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