Category fluency test: Effects of age, gender and education on total scores, clustering and switching in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1771-1777

  Brucki, S M D ^a,b   Rocha, M S G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SANTA MARCELINA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Category fluency; Educational level; Neuropsychological tests; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PORTUGAL; SCHOOL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 11844300333     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2004001200002     Document Type: Article

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