Animal Verbal Fluency and Design Fluency in school-aged children: Effects of age, sex, and mean level of parental education, and regression-based normative data

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1005-1015

  Van Der Elst, Wim ^a   Hurks, Petra ^b   Wassenberg, Renske ^c   Meijs, Celeste ^d   Jolles, Jelle ^e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuous norms; Demographic influences; Executive functions; Fluency development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84855683246     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2011.589509     Document Type: Article

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