Letter and semantic fluency tasks are often used in neuropsychological assessment and are
sensitive to many conditions. Performance is assessed by correct responses and errors …

Measures of phonemic and semantic verbal fluency, such as FAS and Animal Fluency
(Benton, Hamsher, & Sivan, 1989), are often thought to be measures of executive …

Objective: Verbal fluency measures are frequently part of batteries designed to assess
executive function (EF), but are also used to assess semantic processing ability or word …

This study investigated adult age differences in strategy use during verbal fluency
performance among 60 older and 60 younger adults. Clustering and switching, strategic …

Tests of verbal fluency that require either retrieval by semantic category or retrieval by initial
letter were presented to 19 participants with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and 24 control …

Previous research has found that verbal fluency is reduced in head-injured patients and in
patients with focal damage to the frontal lobes. The present study compares a task of verbal …

Although verbal fluency is a frequently used neuropsychological test, little is known about
the underlying cognitive processes. The authors proposed that 2 important components of …

This study used a dual-task interference paradigm to test the hypothesis that different
subcomponents of working memory differentially contribute to performance on letter fluency …

Letter fluency tests are widely used to assess executive function, yet the cognitive processes
underlying fluency performance are poorly understood. In this article, age differences in …

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether phonemic and semantic verbal
fluency were more related to aspects of language processing than executive functioning …