How does the homophone meaning generation test associate with the phonemic and semantic fluency tests? A quantitative and qualitative analysis

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 424-432

  Kavé, Gitit ^a   Avraham, Ayelet ^b   Kukulansky Segal, Dorit ^b,c   Herzberg, Orly ^b,c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Hebrew; Language testing; Switching and clustering; Verbal fluency; Word generation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOMOPHONE MEANING GENERATION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34250665848     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617707070622     Document Type: Article

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