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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"fluency test"”.
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Language effects on semantic fluency test performance among South African adults
Issues around the cultural fairness of cognitive tests and their administration are becoming increasingly important as the global spread of neuropsychological practice quickens. Most of these tests are developed and standardized in high-income countries of the global north, and so when used in low- …
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Executive functions in early adulthood: data for the controlled animal fluency test
… of executive function, the Controlled Animal Fluency Test (CAFT) in a non-clinical sample of young adults. Relationships between performance on the CAFT and other executive measures and cognitive measures were examined along with the relationship of CAFT measures to demographic factors. …
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Development and Validation of a New Naming Task: The Southwestern Item Fluency Test (SWIFT)
Tests of confrontation naming play an important role in the clinical assessment of language. Commonly used naming tests have a variety of limitations including ceiling effects, outdated stimuli, differential item functioning across groups, and often ignore speed of word retrieval even though this …
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A Comparison of Two Measures of Oral Reading Fluency
Reading fluency is an important part of the process of learning to read. It is commonly assessed by the use of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) techniques; however, a new assessment method emerged in the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement- Third Edition (WJ-III). Only one previous study had …
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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
… 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 differences in the …
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Neuropsychological test performances of young depressed outpatient women: an examination of executive functions
… controls on a series of neuropsychological tests purported to be sensitive to the executive functions. Specifically, the measures included the Design Fluency Test, the WAIS-R Digit Span subtest, a Dynamometer task of hand grip strength, perseveration, and fatigue, the FAS Verbal Fluency …
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A Functional Cerebral Systems Approach to Hostility: Changes in Frontal Lobe Delta Activation and Fluency Performance as a Function of Stress
… regulatory control of emotions and expressive fluency (verbal or design), have historically been associated with the frontal lobes. Moreover, research has demonstrated the importance of cerebral laterality with a prominent role of the right frontal regions in the regulation of negative affect …
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An Individual Differences Approach to Emotion Regulation Using a Neuropsychological Model of Approach and Avoidance Temperament
… to achieve the same results. Neuropsychological testing was also conducted in Study 2 to determine if temperament type was related to patterns of anterior brain asymmetry. Results indicated that approach-biased participants outperformed avoidance-biased participants on left frontal lobe tests …
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A neuropsychological investigation of verbal and nonverbal fluency: perspectives on asymmetries in frontal lobe functioning
The neuropsychological construct of fluency refers to productivity under timed and limited search conditions. Verbal fluency tasks, such as the Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT), require production of words under specific constraints (i.e. words that begin with "F"), whereas nonverbal …
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Semantic activation abnormalities in disorganized schizotypy.
… between successive responses on the Category Fluency Test (CFT), using WINDSORS (Windsor Improved Norms of Distance and Similarity of Representations of Semantics; Durda & Buchanan, 2008). We expected that disorganized schizotypy and cognitive slippage would be associated with looser …
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Las funciones ejecutivas como predictoras de rendimiento deportivo en fútbol sala.
… de evaluación utilizados fueron el Design Fluency Test para medir flexibilidad cognitiva, el Stroop test para medir la inhibición y el test Letras y Números perteneciente a la escala de inteligencia de Wechsler para adultos (WAIS-III), para medir la memoria de trabajo. Todos los …
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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 clustering …
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Challenging frontal lobe capacity using lateralized vestibular stress: A functional cerebral systems approach to a clinical risk for falls
… of evidence demonstrates that a design fluency task is often associated with right frontal functioning, it was hypothesized that proficiency on a design fluency task would yield differences in QEEG and skin conductance after vestibular activation. Fifty-eight total (29 high- and 29 …
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Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan
… of the Simon, Stroop, Corsi block task, Verbal fluency test, and Aospan. Results from these tasks considered together with language-related experiential variables are interpreted as supporting the BCA hypothesis. Findings are discussed with respect to possible future avenues of research.
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Learning language through collaboration
… class session. A battery of pre and posttests was administered, including an open-ended speaking task, attitude surveys, a standardized English test, and a reading fluency test. The major finding of the study was that students who had meaning-focused Collaborative Reasoning discussions …
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A concurrent validity study comparing executive functioning of the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability and the NEPSY
… validity between the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ III COG; Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) executive functioning tests and the NEPSY (Korkman, Kirk, & Kemp, 1998) executive functioning tests within the same population sample of nondisabled children. The tests of the …
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A concurrent validity study comparing executive functioning of the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability and the NEPSY
… validity between the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ III COG; Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) executive functioning tests and the NEPSY (Korkman, Kirk, & Kemp, 1998) executive functioning tests within the same population sample of nondisabled children. The tests of the …
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Differential Efficts of Hostility on Frontal Lobe Performance: A dual task approach with Fluency and Cardiovascular Regulation
… on the lateralized tasks of verbal and nonverbal fluency, and the concurrent cerebral regulation of autonomic nervous system functioning was examined. Forty-eight right-handed males were recruited for participation with half classified as low-hostile and the other half as high-hostile. Previous …
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Collective Teacher Efficacy And Reading Achievement For Hispanic Students In Reading First And Non-reading First Schools In Southwest Florida
… (GRADE), the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), and the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS). Results from two-way analyses of variance (ANOVA) did not reveal significant differences between the two groups on a pre and posttest administration of the GRADE. When …
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Graded Cerebral Activation to Noise: Behavioral and Cardiovascular Effects
… pressure. The present investigation sought to test part of this proposition, namely, that increasing magnitude of cerebral activity within the right anterior temporal region generates increasing levels of sympathetic control of heart rate and blood pressure and that the right lateral frontal …
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