The objective was to study the effects of age, education and gender on verbal fluency in
cognitively unimpaired, older individuals. The methods used were as follows: cognitively
unimpaired elderly (55-84 years) subjects (n= 153), were administered category
(animal)(CF) and letter (/pa/)(LF) fluency tasks, in their native language of Malayalam.
Results and conclusions were (1) Level of education, but not age or gender, significantly
influence LF.(2) Level of education (directly) and in the elderly subjects, age (inversely) …

The objective of this study is to establish the effects of age, gender, and education and to
provide preliminary normative data for letter and category fluency tasks in the Egyptian
Arabic-speaking population. We evaluated 139 cognitively healthy volunteers aged 20–93
by adapting the letter and category verbal fluency tasks for the Egyptian population. On the
letter fluency task, mean number of words generated in one-minute beginning with the
Arabic letter “Sheen”(pronounced “sh”) was 8.14 words per minute (SD= 3.25). Letter fluency …