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ERIC Number: EJ882986
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jun
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0090-6905
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Semantic and Phonemic Verbal Fluency in Blinds
Nejati, Vahid; Asadi, Anoosh
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v39 n3 p235-242 Jun 2010
A person who has suffered the total loss of a sensory system has, indirectly, suffered a brain lesion. Semantic and phonologic verbal fluency are used for evaluation of executive function and language. The aim of this study is evaluation and comparison of phonemic and semantic verbal fluency in acquired blinds. We compare 137 blinds and 124 sighted people in verbal fluency task. The tasks were phonemic and semantic verbal fluency test that subjects should be generate as many word as possible in a limited amount of time for a given letter (Phonemic fluency) or a given category (Semantic fluency). Independent T Test was used to comparing blind with sighted. Findings show significant difference between two groups so that that sighted subjects have higher performance in semantic verbal fluency task (p = 0.000). Comparing sighted and blind subjects in phonemic verbal fluency task shows performance in sighted subjects (p = 0.000). Based on this study blinds have lower performance in semantic and phonemic verbal fluency task as a executive function of frontal lobe.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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