Phonological and semantic verbal fluency tasksin a sample of argentinean children

The aim of this work is to obtain data about the evolutionary pattern of performance in verbal fluency tasks for a sample of Argentinean primary school aged children (3rd, 5th y 7th grade) in semantic and phonological verbal fluency tasks. For the semantic fluency task, children were assessed in dif...

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Autores: Fumagalli, Julieta Carolina, Soriano, Federico Gonzalo, Shalóm, Diego Edgar, Barreyro, Juan Pablo, Martínez Cuitiño Carricaburo, María Macarena
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2017
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositório:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/42747
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/42747
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:SEMANTIC FLUENCY
PHONOLOGICAL FLUENCY
EDUCATIONAL STATUS
CHILDREN
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Resumo:The aim of this work is to obtain data about the evolutionary pattern of performance in verbal fluency tasks for a sample of Argentinean primary school aged children (3rd, 5th y 7th grade) in semantic and phonological verbal fluency tasks. For the semantic fluency task, children were assessed in different categories: animals, fruits and vegetables, and body parts for living things domain, and means of transport, musical instruments and clothes for inanimate objects. For the phonological fluency assessment, children were tested with /f/, /a/and /s/phonemes. Both fluency tasks showed differences between grades, indicating the influence of education. Besides, irrespective of the grade, children performed better on the semantic fluency tasks. Results in the semantic fluency task also showed a better performance for the living things domain over the inanimate objects domain. Further analysis on the results showed that 3rd grade children have the worst performance, compared to 5th and 7th grade children. The results of our work are discussed taking in account cognitive mechanisms, executive functions and semantic memory development.