Switching and its Impact on Perseveration in a Verbal Fluency Task: a Study in Persons With Alzheimer’s Clinical Syndrome

• Published in: Archives of clinical neuropsychology Vol. 40; no. 5; pp. 936 - 944
• Main Authors: Dubey, Neha, Basu, Jayanti, Pandey, Dinkar, Ghosh, Amitabha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.08.2025
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alzheimer Disease - complications; Alzheimer Disease - psychology; Cognitive Dysfunction - complications; Cognitive Dysfunction - psychology; Executive Function - physiology; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Semantics; Verbal Behavior - physiology; Perseveration; Working memory; Alzheimer’s disease; Mild cognitive impairment; Semantic fluency; Switching

The relationship between perseveration and switching in semantic verbal fluency tasks and the possible role of self-generated interference one must overcome before switching back to a previously visited subcategory has not been explored. We studied the performance on semantic verbal fluency in 60 co...