Performances on five verbal fluency tests in a healthy, elderly Danish sample

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-33

  Stokholm, Jette ^a   Jørgensen, Kasper ^a   Vogel, Asmus ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Action fluency; Aging; Alternating fluency; Healthy subjects; Lexical fluency; Normative data; Semantic fluency; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873347614     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2012.656576     Document Type: Article

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