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Nature Of The Verbal Fluency Task In Concussed Athletes, Paulina Mejia
Nature Of The Verbal Fluency Task In Concussed Athletes, Paulina Mejia
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Background: Verbal fluency is a common test used to assess naming in individuals with brain injury. Troyer (1997) reported that naming components such as phonemic clusters and categorical switching might be more sensitive to the presence of brain injury than a reduction in the total number of words that is commonly used as a measure. Phonemic task refers to the F-A-S naming task while the semantic task refers to the animal naming task because of the frequent production of the phonemic cluster on the F-A-S and semantic clusters on the animal naming task (Troyer, 1997).
Purpose: The purpose of this …