Verbal Fluency Test - Performance Characteristics

Performance Characteristics

Performance in verbal fluency tests show a number of consistent characteristics in both children and adults:

  • There is an hyperbolic decline in the rate of production of new items over the duration of the task.
  • More typical category examplars are produced with higher frequency (i.e. by more subjects), and earlier in lists, than less typical ones.
  • Items are produced in bursts of semantically-related words in the case of the semantic version and phonetic in the case of phonetic version.

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