Impaired generation of new subcategories and switching in a semantic verbal fluency test in older adults with mild cognitive impairment

• Published in: Frontiers in aging neuroscience Vol. 6; p. 141
• Main Authors: Bertola, Laiss, Cunha Lima, Maria Luiza, Romano-Silva, Marco A., de Moraes, Edgar N., Diniz, Breno Satler, Malloy-Diniz, Leandro F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 01.07.2014; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Activities of daily living; Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Animal cognition; Clinical medicine; clustering; Cognitive ability; Dementia; Geriatrics; Medicine; Memory; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Neuroscience; Older people; Semantic Verbal Fluency; Semantics; Standard scores; Subcategories; switching; Brazil; switching; clustering; mild cognitive impairment; subcategories; Alzheimer's disease; semantic verbal fluency

The semantic verbal fluency task is broadly used in the neuropsychological assessment of elderly subjects. Even some studies have identified differences in verbal fluency clustering and switching measures between subjects with normal aging and a clinical condition such as mild cognitive impairment (...