Verbal Fluency Tasks: Does Time Matter for Identification of Executive Functioning and Lexical-Semantic Deficits Following Right Brain Damage?

摘要

Verbal fluency tasks are one of the most widely used tools to assess verbal components of executive functions (Kavé, Heled, Vakil, & Agranov, 2010). This paradigm is classically applied in one minute trials, but versions with a larger time interval have been developed in order to increase their sensitivity to the identification of deficits, such as the tasks ?rom Protocole Montréal devaluation de la Communication {Protocole MEC^ Joanette, Ska, & C?té, 2004). Nevertheless, as far as we know, there are no studies that investigate the possible differences in sensitivity to deficits between brief and extended versions. The aim of the study was to verify if there are differences in sensitivity between these two forms of evaluation in a sample of right-brain-damaged individuals.