Swedish norms for word fluency tests: FAS, animals and verbs

Verbal fluency tests are useful measures of acquired language impairment and cognitive decline of various etiologies. The aim of this study was to provide normative data for the Swedish population on the three verbal fluency tests, FAS, Animals and Verbs. A group of 165 healthy participants ranging...

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Published in:	Scandinavian journal of psychology Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 479 - 485
Main Authors:	TALLBERG, I. M., IVACHOVA, E., JONES TINGHAG, K., ÖSTBERG, P.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-10-2008
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Cognition Disorders - diagnosis Cognition Disorders - psychology Female Humans Intelligence Kirurgi Language Disorders - diagnosis Language Disorders - psychology Logopedi och foniatrik Logopedics and phoniatrics Male MEDICIN Medicin och hälsovetenskap MEDICINE Middle Aged Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data Otorhinolaryngologi Otorhinolaryngology Phonetics Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data Reference Values Reproducibility of Results Semantics Speech Production Measurement - statistics & numerical data Surgery Swedish norms Word fluency
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Summary:	Verbal fluency tests are useful measures of acquired language impairment and cognitive decline of various etiologies. The aim of this study was to provide normative data for the Swedish population on the three verbal fluency tests, FAS, Animals and Verbs. A group of 165 healthy participants ranging from 16 to 89 years of age were assessed with the verbal fluency tests and tests of level of intellectual functioning. The sample was stratified by education, age and gender. Level of education had a substantial influence on the performance on verbal fluency, most clearly so in FAS and Verbs. Intellectual level had a positive and significant correlation with all measures of word fluency. Moreover, there was an interaction between age and gender such that women aged between 30 and 64 years outperformed elderly men on FAS and Verbs. Guidelines for instructions and scoring in Swedish are given in the article.
Bibliography:	ArticleID:SJOP653 istex:38789D06ECF7251A78110229BE184A33FFF1AC6B ark:/67375/WNG-FTBF9L2D-B ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23
ISSN:	0036-5564 1467-9450 1467-9450
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00653.x