Pupil size shows diminished increases on verbal fluency tasks in patients with behavioral-variant-frontotemporal dementia

M El Haj, D Kapogiannis… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
While behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is mainly associated with
behavioral, social, cognitive, and emotional impairments, impairments in language can also …

Item-Level Analysis of Category Fluency Test Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies of Normal and Neurologically Abnormal Ageing

M De Marco, LM Wright, E Makovac - Neuropsychology Review, 2025 - Springer
Abstract While Category Fluency (CF) is widely used to help profile semantic memory, item-
level scoring (ILS) approaches to this test have been proposed to obtain indices that are less …

Verbal fluency tests assess global cognitive status but have limited diagnostic differentiation: evidence from a large-scale examination of six neurodegenerative …

SK Henderson, KA Peterson, K Patterson… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Verbal fluency is widely used as a clinical test, but its utility in differentiating between
neurodegenerative dementias and progressive aphasias, and from healthy controls …

A semantic strength and neural correlates in developmental dyslexia

S Lukic, F Jiang, ML Mandelli, T Qi, SM Inkelis… - Frontiers in …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Most studies of dyslexia focus on domains of impairment (eg, reading and
phonology, among others), but few examine possible strengths. In the present study, we …

The talking eyes: pupillometry to index verbal fluency in normal aging

M El Haj, AA Moustafa, P Allain, G Chapelet - Clinical Neurology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Verbal fluency tasks are widely used to assess cognitive and linguistic abilities
in older adults. In this study, we investigated whether pupillometry can be used to measure …

Language assessment in primary progressive aphasia: Which components should be tested?

AA Silva, ML Silagi, KZ Ortiz - PloS one, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a dementia syndrome whose onset and
course manifests with language deficits. There is a lack of instruments for clinical …

Bear in mind: the role of personal background in semantic animal fluency–The SMART-MR study

AP Smit, M Beran, EL Twait, MI Geerlings… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objectives Semantic fluency is a prominent neuropsychological task, typically administered
within the category 'animals'. With the increasing development of novel item-level metrics of …

The association of sociodemographic factors with total and item-level semantic fluency metrics.

M Beran, EL Twait, AP Smit, MF Posthuma… - …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: We aimed to estimate the association of age, education, and sex/gender with
semantic fluency performance as measured by the standard total number of words as well …

Patterns of performance on the animal fluency task in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia: A reflection of phonological and semantic skills

F Jebahi, KV Nickels, A Kielar - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose This study aimed to characterize the quantitative (total number of correct words
generated) and qualitative (psycholinguistic properties of correct words generated) …

Verb frequency and density drive naming performance in primary progressive aphasia

MD Stockbridge, JH Venezia, E Vitti, DC Tippett… - Aphasiology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Recent work has highlighted the utility of the Boston Naming Test and Hopkins
Action Naming Assessment (HANA) for distinguishing between semantic (svPPA), logopenic …