Category and letter fluency in highly educated older adults

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 330-338

  Bolla, Karen I ^a   Gray, Sarah ^b   Resnick, Susan M ^c   Galante, Regina ^a   Kawas, Claudia ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032405819     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/clin.12.3.330.1986     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Barr, A., & Brandt, J. (1996). Word-list generation deficits in dementia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 18, 810-812.
2. Bayles, K.A., Trosset, M.W., & Tomoeda, C.K. (1993). Generative naming in Parkinson disease patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 15, 547-562.
3. Benton, A.L. (1968). Differential behavioral effects in frontal lobe disease. Neuropsychologia, 6, 53-60.
4. Benton, A.L., & Hamsher, K. (1978). Multilingual aphasia examination manual. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa.
5. Bolla, K.I., Lindgren, K.N., Bonaccorsy, C., & Bleecker, M.L. (1990). Predictors of verbal fluency (FAS) in the healthy elderly. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46, 623-628.
6. Bolla-Wilson, K.I., & Bleecker, M.L. (1986). The influence of verbal intelligence, sex, age, and education on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. Developmental Neuropsychology, 2, 203-211.
7. Borkowski, J., Benton, A., & Spreen, O. (1967). Word fluency and brain damage. Neuropsychologia, 5, 135-140.
8. Cauthen, N.R. (1978). Verbal fluency: Normative data. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 34, 126-129.
9. Crossley, M., D'Arcy, C., & Rawson, N.S.B. (1997). Letter and category fluency in community-dwelling Canadian seniors: A comparison of normal participants to those with dementia of the Alzheimer or vascular type. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 19, 52-62.
10. Ivnik, R.J., Malec, J.F., Smith, G.E., Tangalos, E.G., & Peterson, R.C. (1996). Neuropsychological tests' norms above age 55: COWAT, BNT, MAE Token, WRAT-R Reading, AMNART, STROOP, TMT, and JLO. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 10, 262-278.
11. Koziol, L.F., & Stout, C.E. (1992). Use of a verbal fluency measure in understanding and evaluating ADHD as an executive function disorder. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75, 1187-1192.
12. Kozora, E. & Cullum, C.M. (1995). Generative naming in normal aging: Total output and qualitative changes using phonemic and semantic constraints. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 9, 313-320.
13. Miller, E. (1984). Verbal fluency as a function of a measure of verbal intelligence and in relation to different types of cerebral pathology. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 25, 53-57.
14. Nelson, H., & Willison, J. (1991) National Adult Reading Test (2nd ed.) Windsor: NFER-Nelson.
15. Ober, B.A., Dronkers, N.F., Koss, E., Delis, D.C., & Friedland, R.P. (1986). Retrieval from semantic memory in Alzheimer's-type dementia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsyckology, 8, 75-92.
16. Pasquier, F., Lebert, F., Grymonprez, L., & Petit, H. (1995). Verbal fluency in dementia of frontal lobe type and dementia of Alzheimer type. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 58, 81-84.
17. Ryan, J.J., & Paolo, A.M.(1992). A screening procedure for estimating premorbid intelligence in the elderly. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 6, 53-62.
18. Shock, N.W., Greulich, R.C., Andres, R., Arenberg, D., Costa, P.T., Lakatta, E.G., & Tobin, J.D. (1984) . Normal human aging: The Baltimore longitudinal study of aging (NIH Publication No. 84-2450). Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
19. Tomer, R., & Levin, B.E. (1993). Differential effects of aging on two verbal fluency tasks. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, 465-466.
20. Trichard, C., Martinot, J.L., Alagille, M., Masure, M.C., Hardy, P., Ginestet, D., & Feline, A. (1995). Time course of prefrontal lobe dysfunction in severely depressed patients: A longitudinal neuropsychological study. Psychological Medicine. 25, 79-85.
21. Veroff, A. (1980). The neuropsychology of aging: Qualitative analysis of visual reproductions. Psychological Research, 41, 249-268.
22. Wechsler, D. (1981). Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised (WAIS-R) Manual. New York, NY: The Psychological Corporation.