What do verbal fluency tasks measure? Predictors of verbal fluency performance in older adults

Z Shao, E Janse, K Visser, AS Meyer - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
… the contributions of verbal ability and executive control to verbal fluency performance in
older adults (n = 82). Verbal fluency was assessed in letter and category fluency tasks, and …

Executive, language, or both? An examination of the construct validity of verbal fluency measures

SL Aita, JD Beach, SE Taylor… - Applied …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
verbal fluency measures were not related to EF. Specifically, the results of this study
demonstrated that both phonemic and semantic fluency … suggest that verbal fluency measures are …

Verbal fluency: language or executive function measure?

DM Whiteside, T Kealey, M Semla, H Luu… - Applied …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Measures The focus of the current study was the Verbal Fluency Test, which is known by
several other names including the COWAT (Benton, Hamsher, & Sivan, 1994). The version …

Verbal fluency performance in dementia of the Alzheimer's type: a meta-analysis

JD Henry, JR Crawford, LH Phillips - Neuropsychologia, 2004 - Elsevier
Verbal fluency deficits in DAT Tests of verbal fluency are amongst the most widely employed
measures used to assess cognitive functioning following neurological damage, and involve …

Working memory as a predictor of verbal fluency

M Daneman - Journal of Psycholinguistic research, 1991 - Springer
… for individual differences in verbal fluency. Working memory … Verbal fluency was assessed
by (1) a speech generation task … The second measure of verbal fluency was an oral reading …

Verbal fluency as a function of a measure of verbal intelligence and in relation to different types of cerebral pathology

E Miller - British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
… A measure of verbal fluency was derived from … fluency from an index of verbal intelligence.
Subjects with right or left frontal lesions and those with dementia had depressed fluency

Verbal fluency deficits in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis

JD Henry, JR Crawford - Journal of the International …, 2004 - cambridge.org
… This derives from the fact that some studies have reported that measures of verbal fluency
in which participants must alternate or shift between naming exemplars that belong to more …

A meta-analytic review of verbal fluency deficits in depression

JD Henry, JR Crawford - Journal of clinical and experimental …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… to investigate the sensitivity of tests of verbal fluency to the presence of this disorder, as there
is a great deal of evidence that these measures are valid markers of executive dysfunction. …

Verbal fluency deficits in multiple sclerosis

JD Henry, WW Beatty - Neuropsychologia, 2006 - Elsevier
… This is consistent with other research suggesting that measures of verbal fluency and the
SDMT may be amongst the most sensitive neuropsychological measures to cognitive …

Action verbal fluency normative data for the elderly

AL Piatt, JA Fields, AM Paolo, AI Tröster - Brain and language, 2004 - Elsevier
… ) as indicators of verb retrieval abilities, recent studies have utilized an action (verb) verbal
fluency measure, the Action Fluency Test (AFT), to assess verb retrieval. Findings from these …