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category fluency test
a psychological test in which participants have to say as many words as possible from a category in a given time (usually 60 seconds), this category can be semantic, such as animals or fruits, or phonemic, such as words that begin with letter p.

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semantic processing
  • total correct responses for all categories
 

semantic memory
  • total correct responses for all categories
 

semantic knowledge
  • total correct responses for all categories
 

NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_fluency_test
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Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:

a psychological test in which participants have to say as many words as possible from a category in a given time (usually 60 seconds), this category can be semantic, such as animals or fruits, or phonemic, such as words that begin with letter p. (from Wikipedia).

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Category fluency test: normative data for English- and Spanish-speaking elderly.
Acevedo A, Loewenstein DA, Barker WW, Harwood DG, Luis C, Bravo M, Hurwitz DA, Aguero H, Greenfield L, Duara R
(J Int Neuropsychol Soc)
2000 Nov
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Category fluency test: effects of age, gender and education on total scores, clustering and switching in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects.
Brucki SM, Rocha MS
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas / Sociedade Brasileira de Biofisica ... [et al.] (Braz J Med Biol Res)
2004 Dec
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Verbal and design fluency in patients with frontal lobe lesions.
Baldo JV, Shimamura AP, Delis DC, Kramer J, Kaplan E
(J Int Neuropsychol Soc)
2001 Jul
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