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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Verbal Fluency"”.
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Verbal fluency performance after traumatic brain injury: a cluster analysis.
… of two different analyses for comparing verbal fluency test performance of participants with mild cognitive impairment resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and healthy controls. The study uses a cluster analysis based on Troyer, Moscovitch, and Winocur (1997) of switching and …
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INTERACTION BETWEEN TIME AND VERBAL FLUENCY: A BEHAVIORAL MODEL FOR REDUCING AGGRESSIVE
… of two variables, time in therapy and verbal fluency, believed important to counseling outcomes. In addition, the study attempted to test the efficiency with which a behavioral model designed specifically for reducing aggressive behaviors, reduces overt and covert aggression of …
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The neurobehavioral correlates of affect perception as a function of verbal fluency classification
… and nonpropositional speech as a function of verbal fluency. Forty-five right-handed subjects with normal auditory acuity for pure tones were assigned to a verbal fluency classification based on scores on the FAS test (Borkowski, Benton, & Spreen, 1967). After being assigned to a fluency …
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The Effects of Divided Attention on Speech Motor, Verbal Fluency and Manual Motor Task Performance
… a speech task (repeating a sentence), a verbal fluency task (listing words beginning with the same letter), and right- and left-handed motor tasks (placing pegs and washers in a peg board) in isolation and in concurrent conditions. Speech kinematic data revealed that during concurrent …
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Neuropsychological and psychophysiological correlates of anger expression styles
… in systole and grip strength in response to a verbal fluency task, a figural fluency task and exposure to a cold pressor. Significant group by trial interaction effects were found for mean number of perseverative errors on neuropsychological measures (F(1,54) = 10.89, p < 0.05), systolic blood …
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Effects of efficient fronto-temporal circuitry on lexical ambiguity resolution: converging evidence from cross-age comparisons in eye-tracking and ERP data
… as a group, although older adults with high verbal fluency showed the young-like pattern. Analyses of individual differences in eye-tracking patterns revealed a similar effect of verbal fluency in both young and older adults: high verbal fluency groups of both ages show larger first fixation …
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A Neuropsychological Investigation of Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity to Verbal and Spatial Fluency Tasks: Testing a New Model of Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Regulation and Disease
… of SBP, DBP, and HR before and after verbal and figural fluency tasks, used as stressors. Dynamic and functional cerebral regulation of cardiovascular reactivity was assessed, specifically, the role that the frontal lobes have in regulating SBP, DBP, and HR in men and women. Sex …
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The relationship between autobiographical memory an executive functions in older adults
… autobiographical memory - recall specificity and fluency - that have been little investigated in cognitive ageing research to date. The literature reviewed included the domains of cognitive and clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and gerontology. It is clear from the review of the literature …
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Human Action Switching in HIV
<p>We evaluated switching in human action/verb fluency to examine how it associates with other measures of executive functioning and with difficulties in the performance of IADLs in a HIV+ sample. Our sample was comprised of 29 HIV+ participants. All the participants completed measures of phonetic …
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The neuropsychological investigation of dyslexic readers: an experimental approach to subtyping
… problems have been established by assessing verbal fluency. Nonfluent output has been associated most often with anterior dysfunction, while fluent output has occurred with posterior dysfunction. The primary purpose of the present exploratory study was to evaluate the utility of verbal …
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Cerebral Regulation of Cardiovascular Functioning and Fluency among Anxious and Nonanxious Men
… phase paradigm entailed the administration of a verbal fluency (left frontal) and nonverbal fluency (right frontal) task with or without the threat of a painful stimulus (cold pressor) to high anxious and nonanxious participants. Thus, the cerebrums are hypothesized to be engaged in a dual-task …
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An Exploratory Study of Endophenotype Markers for Schizophrenia
… regional neural activity during a phonological verbal fluency task. The results were most compelling for the developmental and verbal fluency markers, supporting their role as endophenotype markers. In comparative terms, this may relate more to methodological factors, than the markers inherent …
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Sensory and cognitive processing deficits in anxious depressed children: a neurobehavioral study
… and propositional speech, grip strength, verbal fluency, problem solving, and alternation and sequencing. As predicted, anxious-depressed subjects performed less accurately on the identification of happy, sad, and angry affective prosody in congruent and incongruent conditions, were …
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Phonemic and semantic fluency among individuals diagnosed with MCI, AD, and other dementias
Verbal fluency tests that are used in neuropsychological assessment are usually twofold: Phonemic and semantic fluency tasks. This study aimed to examine performance differences in phonemic and semantic fluency tasks among individuals diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s …
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The relationship of language and performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)
… ability was measured as naming ability and verbal fluency via the Boston Naming Test, Second Edition (BNT-2) and Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) Verbal Fluency Condition 1: Letter Fluency and Condition 2: Category Fluency. Participants included 64 college students (47 …
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Executive Dysfunction is Predictive of Clinical Symptomatology in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
… psychotic symptoms in 22qDS above and beyond non-verbal functioning. We assessed psychomotor speed and mental flexibility (Trails-B), working memory (Letter-Number Sequencing: LNS) and D-KEFS verbal fluency. Psychotic symptomatology was measured using scores obtained from the Structured Interview …
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The influence of lateralized stressors on cardiovascular regulation and perception in high and low hostile men
… lateralized tasks of cardiovascular regulation, verbal fluency, nonverbal fluency, and dichotic listening was assessed. Twenty-four subjects divided into two groups, high- and low-hostile men underwent physiological measurements of SBP, DBP, and HR before and after verbal and figural fluency …
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Obesity Indices and Cognitive Function in Veterans
… create the following factors: Speeded Measures, Verbal Fluency, Memory, and Executive Function. Then, four-step hierarchical regression analyses were conducted with BMI and WC entered as the main predictor variables. Results revealed no significant relationship between obesity indices and …
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Neuropsychological Aspects of Fetal Transplant Surgery for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease: A Longitudinal Study
… of this study indicated that a measure of verbal fluency and two measures of visual memory correlated most consistently with measures of motor functioning and quality of life. Depression was related to lower scores on neuropsychological assessments at 12 months and perceived support was …
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