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Phonemic verbal fluency task in adults with high-level literacy

OBJECTIVE: To establish normative parameters for the F-A-S form of the phonemic verbal fluency test, in a population of Brazilian Portuguese speaking adults with high-level literacy. METHODS: The sample comprised 40 male and female volunteers aged 19 to 59 years, and at least 8 years of formal educa...

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Autores principales: Opasso, Patrícia Romano, Barreto, Simone dos Santos, Ortiz, Karin Zazo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5234753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27759830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082016AO3629
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To establish normative parameters for the F-A-S form of the phonemic verbal fluency test, in a population of Brazilian Portuguese speaking adults with high-level literacy. METHODS: The sample comprised 40 male and female volunteers aged 19 to 59 years, and at least 8 years of formal education. Volunteers were first submitted to the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Clock Drawing cognitive screening tests, then to the F-A-S Verbal Phonemic Fluency Test; in this test, examinees were given 60 seconds to generate as many words as possible beginning with each of the three test letters. RESULTS: The means for number of words beginning the letters F, A and S and for total number of words beginning with either letter generated per minute corresponded to 15.3, 14.4, 13.9 and 43.5, respectively. CONCLUSION: Reference values obtained from young adults with high levels of literacy submitted to the F-A-S Verbal Phonemic Fluency Test in this study were similar to those reported in the international literature. These reference values can be used for clinical assessment of language disorder and neuropsychological evaluation.