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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