Verbal fluency in children with ADHD: Strategy using and temporal properties

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 415-429

  Takács, Ádám ^a,b   Kóbor, Andrea ^a,b   Tárnok, Zsanett ^c   Csépe, Valéria ^a,b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Research Centre for Natural Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

^c Vadaskert Child Psychiatry Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ADHD; Executive functions; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL FLUENCY;

ADHD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS; VERBAL FLUENCY;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84899904796     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2013.799645     Document Type: Article

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