Abstract
This paper examines switching and clustering in phonemic and semantic fluency tasks in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Fluency tasks were administered to 30 Hebrew-speaking patients with TBI and 30 age-matched control participants. Significant group differences were found in total output, number of switches, and number of clusters on both tasks, but not in mean cluster size. Unlike prediction, z scores of the number of semantic switches and clusters were lower than the equivalent z scores on the phonemic test. Results highlight the executive component of semantic fluency and the importance of using this task when assessing cognitive functioning after TBI.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 358-365 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was partially supported by a grant from the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Jaffa, Israel, given to the third author. We wish to thank Ayelet Avraham and Reut Lerer for their help in coding the data. There are no financial or other relationships that could be interpreted as a conflict of interests.
Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Executive functions
- Hebrew
- Language testing
- Switching and clustering
- Traumatic brain injury
- Verbal fluency